Standard Lemma guide

jambee

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

No pronunciation record was provided for this word.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A light walking cane that was fashionable in the eighteenth century. It apparently came from the Calamus plants.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

Examples

  • 1709-1711, The Tatler This Virtuoso has a parcel of Jambees now growing in the East-Indies, where he keeps a man on purpose to look after them

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

See jamb. Compare Old French jamboier (“to walk”).