Jade

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Origin and Meaning of Jade

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• According to a user from South Africa, the name Jade is of English origin and means "Gift of god".
• A submission from Tennessee, United States says the name Jade means "A precious stone" and is of English origin.
• According to a user from California, United States, the name Jade is of Mexican origin and means "Precious green stone, healing stone".
• A user from New Zealand says the name Jade is of English origin and means "Fox".
• According to a user from New Zealand, the name Jade is of New Zealand origin and means "Jade is a precious green stone found in New Zealand. It is otherwise known as Pounamu. It means special stone.".

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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary

noun Jade

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1. [Min] A stone, commonly of a pale to dark green color but sometimes whitish. It is very hard and compact, capable of fine polish, and is used for ornamental purposes and for implements, esp. in Eastern countries and among many early peoples.
2. A color resembling that of jade{1}; it varies from yellowish-green to bluish-green.

Note: ☞ The general term jade includes nephrite, a compact variety of tremolite with a specific gravity of 3, and also the mineral jadeite, a silicate of alumina and soda, with a specific gravity of 3.3. The latter is the more highly prized and includes the feitsui of the Chinese. The name has also been given to other tough green minerals capable of similar use.

Etymology: F., fr. Sp. jade, fr. piedra de ijada stone of the side, fr. ijada flank, side, pain in the side, the stone being so named because it was supposed to cure this pain. Sp. ijada is derived fr. L. ilia flanks. Cf. Iliac

noun Jade

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1. A mean or tired horse; a worthless nag."Tired as a jade in overloaden cart." [Sir P. Sidney.]
2. A disreputable or vicious woman; a wench; a quean; also, sometimes, a worthless man."She shines the first of battered jades." [Swift.]
3. A young woman; -- generally so called in irony or slight contempt."A souple jade she was, and strang." [Burns.]

Etymology: OE. jade; cf. Prov. E. yaud, Scot. yade yad yaud, Icel. jalda a mare

verb Jade

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1. To treat like a jade; to spurn.(Obs)
2. To make ridiculous and contemptible.(Obs)"I do now fool myself, to let imagination jade me." [Shak.]
3. To exhaust by overdriving or long-continued labor of any kind; to tire, make dull, or wear out by severe or tedious tasks; to harass."The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power, . . . checks at any vigorous undertaking ever after." [Locke.]
   synonyms: To fatigue; tire; weary; harass.

Usage: To Jade Fatigue Tire Weary. Fatigue is the generic term; tire denotes fatigue which wastes the strength; weary implies that a person is worn out by exertion; jade refers to the weariness created by a long and steady repetition of the same act or effort. A little exertion will tire a child or a weak person; a severe or protracted task wearies equally the body and the mind; the most powerful horse becomes jaded on a long journey by a continual straining of the same muscles. Wearied with labor of body or mind; tired of work, tired out by importunities; jaded by incessant attention to business.

verb Jade

To become weary; to lose spirit.

Other Dictionary Sources

1. An old or over-worked horse
   Synonyms: hack, nag, and plug
2. A light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green
   Synonyms: jade green
3. A woman adulterer
   Synonyms: adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, loose woman, slut, strumpet, and trollop
4. A semiprecious gemstone that takes a high polish; is usually green but sometimes whitish; consists of jadeite or nephrite
   Synonyms: jadestone
5. Exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
   Synonyms: fag, fag out, fatigue, outwear, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, and weary
6. Lose interest or become bored with something or somebody
   Synonyms: fatigue, pall, tire, and weary
7. Of something having the color of jade; especially varying from bluish green to yellowish green
   Synonyms: jade-green

Wiktionary

From jade, taken into general use in the 1970s.

1. A female given name.

Jade was also found in the following language(s): Finnish, French, and German

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  #12	Girl Names Unique to Nevada

• How Popular is the name Jade? Jade is the 710^th most popular name of all time. As a last name Jade was the 86,645^th most popular name in 2010.
• How many people with the first name Jade have been born in the United States? From 1880 to 2017, the Social Security Administration has recorded 86,190 babies born with the first name Jade in the United States. That's more than enough people named Jade to occupy the territory of Isle of Man (United Kingdom) with an estimated population of 84,497 (as of March 27, 2011).
• What year were 5 or more babies first named Jade? The name was first given to 5 or more babies in the year 1944 when it was given as a first name to 6 new born babies.
• When was Jade first recorded in the United States? The oldest recorded birth by the Social Security Administration for the first name Jade is Tuesday, September 30th, 1873.
• What year had the most people named Jade born? The highest recorded use of the first name Jade was in 2002 with a total of 3,630 babies. That's a lot of babies named Jade!
• Random Jade Factoid: According to the 2000 U.S. Social Security Administration data, the first name Jade ranks 84^th in popularity as a baby girl's name in South Dakota. Imagine that, 11 babies in South Dakota have the same name as you in 2000.
• Weird things about the name Jade: Your name in reverse order is Edaj. A random rearrangement of the letters in your name (anagram) will give Deaj. How do you pronounce that?
• How many people have the last name Jade? In 2010, the U.S. Census Bureau surveyed 215 people with the last name Jade.
• How likely are you to meet someone with the last name of Jade? Chances are, most people haven't met someone with Jade as their last name since less than 1 person in 1.4m people have that last name. If you know one, consider yourself lucky!

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