JADE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jade mean? 

• JADE (noun)
  The noun JADE has 4 senses:

1. a semiprecious gemstone that takes a high polish; is usually green but sometimes whitish; consists of jadeite or nephrite

2. a woman adulterer

3. a light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green

4. an old or over-worked horse

  Familiarity information: JADE used as a noun is uncommon.

• JADE (adjective)
  The adjective JADE has 1 sense:

1. of something having the color of jade; especially varying from bluish green to yellowish green

  Familiarity information: JADE used as an adjective is very rare.

• JADE (verb)
  The verb JADE has 2 senses:

1. lose interest or become bored with something or somebody

2. exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress

  Familiarity information: JADE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JADE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A semiprecious gemstone that takes a high polish; is usually green but sometimes whitish; consists of jadeite or nephrite

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

jade; jadestone

Hypernyms ("jade" is a kind of...):

opaque gem (a gemstone that is opaque)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A woman adulterer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

adulteress; fornicatress; hussy; jade; loose woman; slut; strumpet; trollop

Hypernyms ("jade" is a kind of...):

adulterer; fornicator (someone who commits adultery or fornication)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

jade; jade green

Hypernyms ("jade" is a kind of...):

green; greenness; viridity (green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass)

Derivation:

jade (of something having the color of jade; especially varying from bluish green to yellowish green)

Sense 4

Meaning:

An old or over-worked horse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

hack; jade; nag; plug

Hypernyms ("jade" is a kind of...):

Equus caballus; horse (solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times)

Derivation:

jade (exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress)

jade (lose interest or become bored with something or somebody)

• JADE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of something having the color of jade; especially varying from bluish green to yellowish green

Synonyms:

jade; jade-green

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

Derivation:

jade (a light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green)

• JADE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they jade    ... he / she / it jades   
Past simple: jaded   
Past participle: jaded   
-ing form: jading   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lose interest or become bored with something or somebody

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

fatigue; jade; pall; tire; weary

Context example:

I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food

Hypernyms (to "jade" is one way to...):

degenerate; deteriorate; devolve; drop (grow worse)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "jade"):

conk out; peter out; poop out; run down; run out (use up all one's strength and energy and stop working)

retire; withdraw (lose interest)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

jade (an old or over-worked horse)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

fag; fag out; fatigue; jade; outwear; tire; tire out; wear; wear down; wear out; wear upon; weary

Context example:

We wore ourselves out on this hike

Hypernyms (to "jade" is one way to...):

indispose (cause to feel unwell)

Cause:

fatigue; jade; pall; tire; weary (lose interest or become bored with something or somebody)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "jade"):

beat; exhaust; tucker; tucker out; wash up (wear out completely)

overfatigue; overtire; overweary (tire excessively)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

jade (an old or over-worked horse)

 Context examples 

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.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Emotional delight is followed by no more than jaded senses which speedily recuperate.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He was too tired and jaded to be interested in anything, though he planned to leave Saturday afternoon, if they finished at three, and ride on his wheel to Oakland.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I had had a hard day's work, and was pretty well jaded when I came climbing out, at last, upon the level of Blackheath.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Next day at morning lesson the teacher observed that his pupil was indeed looking pale and jaded, with listless eyes and a weary manner.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Four times he had covered the distance between Salt Water and Dawson, and the knowledge that, jaded and tired, he was facing the same trail once more, made him bitter.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

My spirits are quite jaded with listening to his nonsense: and then, being such a smart young fellow, I saw every eye was upon us.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

It had never been jaded by study, and it bit hold of the knowledge in the books with sharp teeth that would not let go.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Yes; and the sense of being unfit for it, or of not having understood it, or of having shown his condition in spite of himself, seems to make him so uneasy, that next day he is worse, and next day worse, and so he becomes jaded and haggard.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In the joyfulness of family love everything for a short time was subdued, and the pleasure of seeing her, leaving them at first little leisure for calm curiosity, they were all seated round the tea-table, which Mrs. Morland had hurried for the comfort of the poor traveller, whose pale and jaded looks soon caught her notice, before any inquiry so direct as to demand a positive answer was addressed to her.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)