Definitions for jades

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jades jade

Spelling: [jeyd]

IPA: /dʒeɪd/

Jades is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in jades (adejs).

Definitions for jades

noun

1. either of two minerals, jadeite or nephrite, sometimes green, highly esteemed as an ornamental stone for carvings, jewelry, etc.
2. an object, as a carving, made from this material.
3. Also called jade green. green, varying from bluish green to yellowish green.
4. a worn-out, broken-down, worthless, or vicious horse.
5. a disreputable or ill-tempered woman.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to make or become dull, worn-out, or weary, as from overwork or overuse.

Origin of jades

1585-95; French Italian giada obsolete Spanish (piedra de) ijada (stone of) colic Vulgar Latin *iliata, equivalent to Latin īli(a) flanks (see ilium) + -ata

Examples for jades

The jade had to come to him, at last, completely subdued, as in the “Taming of the Shrew.”

I held the crystal globe in one hand and the jade talisman in the other.

Starita first opened jade and Pearl in 1974, but always maintained it as a side project while holding down full-time jobs.

Then round about him the Herd Boy saw forests of chrysophrase and trees of jade.

jade McCauley, a deputy sheriff came into the room at that moment.

After Mrs. Butterfield retreats upstairs, she goes to have sex with her husband, only to realize that jade has her diaphragm.

That jade of yours, Toinette, has grown more insolent than ever.

A man who entrusts his heart to a woman has a jade for his banker.

The result is a jade green soup that is smooth and gently tonic.

In 1996 the demand got so overwhelming that I made [jade and Pearl] my focus.