jester
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Jesters
See also: ještěr
English
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Etymology
From Middle English gestour; equivalent to jest + -er.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛs.tə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛs.tɚ/
- Homophone: gestor
- Rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)
Noun
jester (plural jesters)
- One who jests, jokes or teases.
- 2025 February 26, Roy Rivenburg, “Nellie Bowles of The Free Press punctures pretension left and right”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
- As resident jester at the maverick journalism outlet The Free Press, Nellie Bowles scours the news for the absurd and hypocritical, and then skewers the best of the worst in her column, TGIF.
- A person in colourful garb and fool's cap who amused a medieval and early modern royal or noble court.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Southeast Asian genus Symbrenthia.
Synonyms
- (one who jokes): buffoon, clown, joker, see also Thesaurus:joker
- (court entertainer): buffoon, clown, fool, jestress, see also Thesaurus:jester
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
one who jests
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person who amused a medieval court — see court jester
Verb
jester (third-person singular simple present jesters, present participle jestering, simple past and past participle jestered)
- (intransitive) To act in a foolish or clownish way for the purpose of entertainment or attracting attention.
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Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Old Norse jǫstr, from Proto-Germanic *jestuz, whence English yeast.
Alternative forms
Noun
jester m (definite singular jesteren, indefinite plural jestere or jestre or jestrer, definite plural jesterne or jestrene)
Related terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
Noun
jester m
- indefinite plural of jest
References
- “jester” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Norse jǫstr, from Proto-Germanic *jestuz, whence also English yeast. Doublet of jest.
Pronunciation
Noun
jester m (definite singular jesteren, indefinite plural jestrar, definite plural jestrane)
Related terms
References
- “jester” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.