Antonyms for jade

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : jeyd

Phonetic Transcription : dʒeɪd

Definition of jade

Origin : ornamental stone, 1721, earlier iada (1590s), from French le jade, error for earlier l'ejade, from Spanish piedra de (la) ijada (1560s), "stone of colic, pain in the side" (jade was thought to cure this), from Vulgar Latin *iliata, from Latin ilia (plural) "flanks, kidney area" (see ileum).

noun slut
verb fatigue

Example sentences :

A man who entrusts his heart to a woman has a jade for his banker.
Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke

That jade of yours, Toinette, has grown more insolent than ever.
Extract from : « The Imaginary Invalid » by Molire

Then round about him the Herd Boy saw forests of chrysophrase and trees of jade.
Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various

The jade had to come to him, at last, completely subdued, as in the “Taming of the Shrew.”
Extract from : « Blood and Iron » by John Hubert Greusel

I held the crystal globe in one hand and the jade talisman in the other.
Extract from : « Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective » by Ellis Parker Butler

To make ye a poor Rogue as long as you live, like a Jade as you are.
Extract from : « Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies (1694) » by Lawrence Echard

She is virtuous and constant; Ardelia is a jade capable of heartless treachery.
Extract from : « The Works of Aphra Behn » by Aphra Behn

From the mirror Cassy went to a table and, from a jade platter, took a ring.
Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus

The Master said, 'Courtesy, courtesy,' is the cry; but are jade and silk the whole of courtesy?
Extract from : « The Sayings Of Confucius » by Confucius

Often there is a green which can only be matched by jade or emerald.
Extract from : « The Heart of Nature » by Francis Younghusband

Synonyms for jade

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