jade

/dʤeid/
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jade

The vase on the mantelpiece is a beautiful shade of jade.

Definition

  1. Noun:

    • A semiprecious gemstone: A hard, typically green stone, often carved into ornaments, jewelry, or artifacts. It consists of either jadeite or nephrite.
    • A light green color: A color varying from bluish green to yellowish green, resembling the gemstone.
    • An old or over-worked horse: A horse that is worn out, tired, or of poor quality due to age or excessive work.
    • A woman (archaic/derogatory): An offensive or contemptuous term for a woman, implying she is disreputable or ill-tempered.

  2. Verb:

    • To exhaust or tire out: To make someone or something very tired, especially through overuse or great strain.
    • To lose interest or become bored: To grow weary or bored with something or somebody.

  3. Adjective:

    • Having the color of jade: Of a light green color, varying from bluish green to yellowish green.
Usage Examples

  • Noun (Gemstone):

    • The museum displayed a beautiful jade carving from ancient China.
    • She wore a necklace made of polished jade.

  • Noun (Color):

    • The walls were painted a soothing shade of jade.

  • Noun (Horse):

    • The old jade could no longer pull the heavy cart.

  • Verb (To exhaust):

    • The long journey jaded the travelers.
    • Years of repetitive work had jaded his enthusiasm for the job.

  • Verb (To become bored):

    • He quickly jaded of the constant meetings and paperwork.

  • Adjective (Color):

    • She preferred the jade curtains over the brighter green ones.
Advanced Usage
  • "To be jaded" (Adjective): Feeling or showing a lack of interest and excitement because you have experienced something too many times or because you are tired.
    • After twenty years in the industry, he had become a jaded critic.
    • The jaded audience barely applauded at the end of the predictable performance.
Variants and Related Words
  • Jaded (adj): Worn out, wearied, or dulled from overuse or excess.
  • Jadeite (n): A rare, hard, typically green variety of jade, a sodium-aluminum silicate.
  • Nephrite (n): A common, slightly softer variety of jade, a calcium-magnesium-iron silicate.
Synonyms
  • Noun (Gemstone): Gem, stone, mineral.
  • Noun (Horse): Nag, hack, plug.
  • Verb (To tire): Exhaust, fatigue, weary, drain.
  • Verb (To bore): Tire, weary, pall, sicken.
Related Phrases
  • Jade green: A specific term for the green color associated with the stone.
    • The artist mixed colors to achieve the perfect jade green for the landscape.
Idioms
  • None directly associated with the core word "jade" itself. (Note: Idioms like "jade plant" refer to a succulent plant, not the core word's primary meanings.)
jade

The vase on the mantelpiece is a beautiful shade of jade.

Adjective
  1. of something having the color of jade; especially varying from bluish green to yellowish green
Noun
  1. an old or over-worked horse
  2. a light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green
  3. a woman adulterer
  4. a semiprecious gemstone that takes a high polish; is usually green but sometimes whitish; consists of jadeite or nephrite
Verb
  1. exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
    • We wore ourselves out on this hike
  2. lose interest or become bored with something or somebody
    • I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food

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