About The Word Jester
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Jester
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What's The Definition Of Jester?
[n] a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the middle ages
Synonyms | Synonyms for Jester: fool Related Terms | Find terms related to Jester: banana | buffo | buffoon | burlesquer | caricaturist | clown | Columbine | comedian | comic | cutup | droll | epigrammatist | fool | funnyman | gag writer | gagman | gagster | Hanswurst | Harlequin | humorist | idiot | ironist | jack-pudding | joker | jokesmith | jokester | lampooner | madcap | merry-andrew | motley | motley fool | Pantalone | Pantaloon | parodist | pickle-herring | Polichinelle | prankster | Pulcinella | Punch | Punchinello | punner | punster | quipster | reparteeist | satirist | Scaramouch | wag | wagwit | wisecracker | wit | witling | zany See Also | buffoon | clown | merry andrew Jester In Webster's Dictionary \Jest"er\, n. [Cf. {Gestour}.]
1. A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool.
This . . . was Yorick's skull, the king's jester.
--Shak.
Dressed in the motley garb that jesters wear.
--Longfellow.
2. A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light
and amusing talk.
He ambled up and down With shallow jesters. --Shak.
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