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jasper

Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒæs.pə/

The English word “jasper” has 7 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian.
  2. An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
  3. Jasperware pottery.
  4. A wasp.
  5. A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple.
  6. A stranger.

verb

  1. To decorate with, or as if with, jasper.

Etymology

From Middle English jasper, jaspre, from Old French jaspre, a variant of jaspe (modern French jaspe), from Latin iaspis, from Ancient Greek ἴασπις (íaspis).

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