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• cade
  cade

  noun

  a juniper, Juniperus oxycedrus, of the Mediterranean area, whose wood on destructive distillation yields an oily liquid oil of cade, used in treating skin diseases.
• Cade
  Cade

  noun

  Jack, died 1450, English rebel during the reign of Henry VI, based in Kent.
• -cade
  -cade

  a combining form extracted from cavalcade, used with the meaning “procession” in the formation of compound words.

cade

¹ American  

[keyd] / keɪd /

noun

• cades
  plural

1. a juniper, Juniperus oxycedrus, of the Mediterranean area, whose wood on destructive distillation yields an oily liquid oil of cade, used in treating skin diseases.

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cade ² American  

[keyd] / keɪd /

adjective

1. Eastern New England and British. (of the young of animals) abandoned or left by the mother and raised by humans.

   a cade lamb.

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Cade ³ American  

[keyd] / keɪd /

noun

1. Jack, died 1450, English rebel during the reign of Henry VI, based in Kent.

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-cade ⁴ American  

1. a combining form extracted from cavalcade, used with the meaning “procession” in the formation of compound words.

   motorcade; tractorcade.

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Cade ¹ British  

/ keɪd /

noun

1. Jack. died 1450, English leader of the Kentish rebellion against the misgovernment of Henry VI (1450)

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-cade ² British  

combining form

1. indicating a procession of a specified kind

   motorcade

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cade ³ British  

/ keɪd /

noun

1. a juniper tree, Juniperus oxycedrus of the Mediterranean region, the wood of which yields an oily brown liquid ( oil of cade ) used to treat skin ailments

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cade ⁴ British  

/ keɪd /

adjective

1. (of a young animal) left by its mother and reared by humans, usually as a pet

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• cades
  plural

Etymology

Origin of cade¹

1565–75; < Middle French < Provençal; akin to Late Latin catanum; perhaps originally a plant name in a substratum language of the Alps and Pyrenees

Origin of cade²

1425–75; late Middle English cad ( e ), of obscure origin

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While it's simple to trace some origin lines, for example that of cade, which Niçois workers who arrived in Toulon to work in the arsenal in the 19th century, others are blurred.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2022

These days, you'll find farinata or tarta cauda in Liguria, belecauda in southern Piedmont, cade in Toulon, cecina in Tuscany, and calentica in Algeria.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2022

It has decidedly masculine tones of whisky, musky ambrette seeds and a smokiness from cade wood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2018

At the White House, after Kennedy had indicated that he would run, Lyndon Johnson lowered his cheerful fa cade.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thickened surfaces are best treated with wood tar, in the form of oil of cade ointment, or the "pix liquida" of the drug shops mixed with twice its amount of olive oil.

From The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) by Kenelm Winslow

Texas State sophomore right-hander Cade Smith then hit Adrian Lopez with a pitch and walked Augie Lopez to load the bases.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026

Quarterback Cade Klubnik was a bit of a flier in the fourth round but one worth taking if veteran Geno Smith struggles.

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026

Meanwhile, one of the Lake De Cade camp owners has sued Sleca, seeking class-action status for damages from the loss of electricity, including cratered resale values.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

A dominant Cade Cunningham scored 42 points as the NBA-leading Detroit Pistons swatted aside the New York Knicks 126-111 Thursday on the basketball league's return from its brief All-Star Game break.

From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026

This is why I only take my shirt off around people who don’t read—like Cade Hernandez and pretty much everybody associated with the Burnt Mill Creek High School Pioneers baseball team.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith

Of increasing interest and worry to scientists is what the cumulative impact of de cades of constant low- level noise can do.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 9, 2013

They also enabled her to make one of the biggest breakthroughs in ocean noise research in de cades.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 9, 2013

As the British withdrew behind barri cades to the piers where their transports lay waiting, units of the U.N.

From Time Magazine Archive

But, for your further enlightenment, let us pretend that Sextus Tarquinius, coming to Delphi to consult the Oracle of Apollo, receives the answer: Exul inopsque cades irata pulsus ab urbe.

From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by E.M. Huggard

We are not told the prices of tammies or durants, romals or molletons, cades or shalloons, but we are always carefully informed that they may be had at the lowest prices.

From Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Sir J. M. (James MacPherson) Le Moine