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jade
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??e?d/
- Rhymes: -e?d
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French le jade, rebracketing of earlier l'ejade (“jade”), from Spanish piedra de ijada (“flank stone”), via Vulgar Latin *iliata from Latin ilia (“flank”). (Jade was thought to cure pains in the side.)
Noun
jade (usually uncountable, plural jades)
- A semiprecious stone, either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often used for carving figurines.
- Synonyms: jadestone, jade stone, yu
- A bright shade of slightly bluish or greyish green, typical of polished jade stones.
- Synonym: jade green
- A succulent plant, Crassula ovata.
- Synonyms: jade plant, lucky plant, money plant, money tree
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Adjective
jade (not comparable)
- Of a grayish shade of green, typical of jade stones.
Etymology 2
From Middle English [Term?], either a variant of yaud or merely influenced by it. Yaud derives from Old Norse jalda (“mare”), from a Uralic language, such as Moksha ????? (el?de) or Erzya ????? (el?de). See yaud for more.
Noun
jade (plural jades)
- 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,[2]
- 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,[3]
- 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
- 1760, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, London: R. & J. Dodsley, Volume I, Chapter 10, p. 36,[2]
- (especially derogatory) A bad-tempered or disreputable woman.
- c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act I, Scene 1,[4]
- 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,[5]
- 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.
- 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter III:
- ‘You shall pay me for the plague of having you eternally in my sight—do you hear, damnable jade?’
- 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 ...
- c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act I, Scene 1,[4]
Synonyms
- (bad-tempered woman): See Thesaurus:shrew or Thesaurus:woman
Translations
Verb
jade (third-person singular simple present jades, present participle jading, simple past and past participle jaded)
- To tire, weary or fatigue
- The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power, […] checks at any vigorous undertaking ever after.
- (obsolete) To treat like a jade; to spurn.
- (obsolete) To make ridiculous and contemptible.
Synonyms
- (to tire): See Thesaurus:tire
Derived terms
- jaded
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References
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ja?d?/, [?jæ?ð?]
- Rhymes: -a?d?
Noun
jade c (singular definite jaden, uncountable)
- (mineralogy) jade
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?j?de/, [?j?de?]
- Rhymes: -?de
- Syllabification: ja?de
Noun
jade
- (mineralogy) jade
Declension
French
Etymology
Rebracketed from earlier l'ejade (“jade”), from Spanish piedra de ijada (“flank stone”), via Vulgar Latin *iliata from Latin ilia (“flank”) (jade was thought to cure pains in the side).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ad/
Noun
jade m (plural jades)
- jade
Descendants
Further reading
- “jade” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- déjà
Portuguese
Etymology
From French le jade, rebracketing of earlier l'ejade (“jade”), from Spanish piedra de ijada (“flank stone”), via Vulgar Latin *iliata from Latin ilia (“flank”) (jade was thought to cure pains in the side).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ad?i
Noun
jade m (plural jades)
- jade (gem)
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
jade (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- vocative singular of jad
Spanish
Etymology
From French jade, back formation from le jade, rebracketing of earlier l'ejade (“jade”), from Spanish piedra de ijada (literally “flank stone”), via Vulgar Latin *iliata from Latin ilia (“flank”) (jade was thought to cure pains in the side).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?xade/, [?xa.ð?e]
Noun
jade m (plural jades)
- (mineralogy) jade
Derived terms
- jadeíta
Anagrams
- deja
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disquiet
English
Etymology
dis- +? quiet.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d?s?kwa??t/
- Rhymes: -a??t
- Hyphenation: dis?quiet
Noun
disquiet (countable and uncountable, plural disquiets)
- Lack of quiet; absence of tranquility in body or mind
- Synonyms: anxiety, disturbance, restlessness, uneasiness
Translations
Adjective
disquiet (comparative more disquiet, superlative most disquiet)
- (chiefly obsolete) Deprived of quiet; impatient, restless, uneasy.
- 1669, anonymous [Robert Fleming], The Fulfilling of the Scripture, or An Essay Shewing the Exact Accomplishment of the Word of God in His Works of Providence, Performed and to be Performed. For Confirming the Beleevers, and Convincing the Atheists of the Present Time. Containing in the End a Few Rare Histories of the Works and Servants of God in the Church of Scotland, [Rotterdam: s.n.], OCLC 9818801; republished as The Fulfilling of the Scripture, in Three Parts. [...] In Two Volumes, volume I, Glasgow: Printed by Stephen Young, Prince's-Street, 1801, OCLC 561020060, page 234:
- How rare is it for men to get their lot in the world brought up to their de?ire? but are ?till at ?ome jar with their pre?ent condition, ?o that oft there needs no more to turn men discontent but the thought of ?ome lot, which they apprehend more ?ati?fying than their own, the want whereof turns them more di?quiet than all their enjoyments are plea?ing; […]
- 1719, “Robinson Crusoe” [pseudonym; Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Suprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years, All Alone in an Un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having Been Cast on Shore by Shipwreck, whereon All the Men Perished but Himself. With an Account how He Was at Last as Strangely Deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself, London: W. Taylor, OCLC 752551201; republished as The Wonderful Life, and Most Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York; Mariner. Containing a Full and Particular Account How He Lived Eight and Twenty Years in an Un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America: How His Ship was Lost in a Storm, and All His Companions Drowned; and How He was Cast upon the Shore by the Wreck. With a True Relation How He was at last Miraculously Preserved by Pyrates. Faithfully Epitomized from the Three Volumes, and Adorned with Cutts Suited to the Most Remarkable Stories, London: Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, at the Red Lion, in Pater noster Row; R. Ware, at the Bible and Sun, in Amen-Corner; and J. Hodges, at the Looking-glass, on London-Bridge, 1737, OCLC 559894466, page 51:
- From this place it was that i u?ed to go often to view my boat; and now i ?hall relate a thing that gave me the mo?t di?quiet of any thing i had ever met with, ?ince my fir?t coming into the i?land. […] [O]ne day, as i was going to my boat, as u?ual, i perceived on the ?and, the print of a man's naked foot, and had i ?een an apparition, i could not have been more terrified.
- 1669, anonymous [Robert Fleming], The Fulfilling of the Scripture, or An Essay Shewing the Exact Accomplishment of the Word of God in His Works of Providence, Performed and to be Performed. For Confirming the Beleevers, and Convincing the Atheists of the Present Time. Containing in the End a Few Rare Histories of the Works and Servants of God in the Church of Scotland, [Rotterdam: s.n.], OCLC 9818801; republished as The Fulfilling of the Scripture, in Three Parts. [...] In Two Volumes, volume I, Glasgow: Printed by Stephen Young, Prince's-Street, 1801, OCLC 561020060, page 234:
Derived terms
- disquieting
- disquietude
Verb
disquiet (third-person singular simple present disquiets, present participle disquieting, simple past and past participle disquieted)
- (transitive, intransitive) To make (someone or something) worried or anxious.
Synonyms
- unquiet (now rare)
- unsettle
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