• IPA: /d͡ʒeɪd/

jade (uncountable)

1. A semiprecious stone, either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often used for carving figurines.

   Synonyms: jadestone, jade stone, yu

2. A bright shade of slightly bluish or greyish green, typical of polished jade stones.

    

   Synonyms: jade green

3. A succulent plant, Crassula ovata.

   Synonyms: jade plant, lucky plant, money plant, money tree

• French: jade
• German: Jade
• Italian: giada
• Portuguese: jade
• Russian: нефри́т
• Spanish: jade

jade (not comparable)

1. Of a grayish shade of green, typical of jade stones.

jade (plural jades)

1. A horse too old to be put to work.
   • 1760, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, London: R. & J. Dodsley, Volume I, Chapter 10, p. 36,

     Let that be as it may, as my purpose is to do exact justice to every creature brought upon the stage of this dramatic work,—I could not stifle this distinction in favour of Don Quixote’s horse;—in all other points the parson’s horse, I say, was just such another,—for he was as lean, and as lank, and as sorry a jade, as HUMILITY herself could have bestrided.

   • 1817, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, Chapter 11,

     My horse would have trotted to Clifton within the hour, if left to himself, and I have almost broke my arm with pulling him in to that cursed broken-winded jade’s pace.

   Synonyms: nag, yaud
2. (especially, pejorative) A bad-tempered or disreputable woman.
   • c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act I, Scene 1,

     You always end with a jade’s trick: I know you of old.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Dublin: John Smith, Volume I, Book I, Chapter 4, p. 14,

     However, what she withheld from the Infant, she bestowed with the utmost Profuseness on the poor unknown Mother, whom she called an impudent Slut, a wanton Hussy, an audacious Harlot, a wicked Jade, a vile Strumpet, with every other Appellation with which the Tongue of Virtue never fails to lash those who bring a Disgrace on the Sex.

   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 9:

     Sir Pitt Crawley was a philosopher with a taste for what is called low life. His first marriage with the daughter of the noble Binkie had been made under the auspices of his parents; and as he often told Lady Crawley in her lifetime she was such a confounded quarrelsome high-bred jade that when she died he was hanged if he would ever take another of her sort ...

• (bad-tempered woman) seeSynonyms en

• French: carne
• German: Klepper, alter Gaul, Gaul, Mähre
• Italian: ronzino
• Russian: кля́ча

• Russian: него́дница

jade (jades, present participle jading; past and past participle jaded)

1. To tire, weary or fatigue
   • a. 1705, John Locke, “Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, in Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke: […], London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], published 1706, OCLC 6963663 ↗:

     The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power, […] checks at any vigorous undertaking ever after.

2. (obsolete) To treat like a jade; to spurn.
3. (obsolete) To make ridiculous and contemptible.

• (to tire) seeSynonyms en

• Russian: утомля́ть

1. A female given name.
   • 2010 Joanne Harris, blueeyedboy, Doubleday, ISBN 9780385609500, page 102:

     Emily. Em-il-y, three syllables, like a knock on the door of destiny. Such an odd, old-fashioned name, compared to those Kylies and Traceys and Jades — names that reeked of Impulse and grease and stood out in gaudy neon colours —

• French: Jade
• Italian: Giada