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Jasper
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- 1 A male given name from Old Persian.
"Her husband is...let me see...oh yes, he's Lord Jasper Jayne. His name sounds like the hero of a servant's novelette, but he doesn't look like that. He looks like a chucker-out in a back-street pub."
- 2 A surname.
- 3 One of the Magi, also known as Caspar.
- 4 A placename:; A place in Canada:; A town in Alberta, Canada.
- 5 A placename:; A place in Canada:; Ellipsis of Jasper National Park: a national park in Alberta, Canada. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
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- 6 A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; A city, the county seat of Walker County, Alabama.
- 7 A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; A small city, the county seat of Newton County, Arkansas.
- 8 A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; A city, the county seat of Hamilton County, Florida.
- 9 A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; A city, the county seat of Pickens County, Georgia.
- 10 A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; A city, the county seat of Dubois County, Indiana.
- 11 A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; A city in Pipestone County and Rock County, Minnesota.
- 12 A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; A city in Jasper County, Missouri.
- 13 A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; A town in Steuben County, New York.
- 14 A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Pike County, Ohio.
- 15 A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon.
- 16 A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; A town, the county seat of Marion County, Tennessee.
- 17 A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; A city, the county seat of Jasper County, Texas.
- 18 A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Lee County, Virginia.
- 19 A placename:; A number of places in the United States:; A number of townships in the United States, listed under Jasper Township.
- 20 A placename:; Ellipsis of Jasper County. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
- 21 A placename:; Ellipsis of Jasper Township. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
- 1 Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian. countable, obsolete, uncountable
- 2 A wasp. UK, West-Country, colloquial
- 3 an opaque form of quartz; red or yellow or brown or dark green in color; used for ornamentation or as a gemstone wordnet
- 4 An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface. countable, uncountable
- 5 A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple. US, slang
"And list'nin to some big out-a-town jasper / Hearin' him tell about horse-race gamblin' / Not a wholesome trottin' race, no!"
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- 6 Jasperware pottery. countable, uncountable
- 7 A stranger. Appalachia
- 1 To decorate with, or as if with, jasper. transitive
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).
From Middle English jasper, jaspre, from Old French jaspre, a variant of jaspe (modern French jaspe), from Latin iaspis, from Ancient Greek ἴασπις (íaspis).
From the male personal name Jasper.
A name given to one of the Magi in a medieval European cult, from Biblical Hebrew גִּזְבָּר (gizbar), ultimately from Old Median *ganǰabarah; see it for more.
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