jester

3 definitions found

jester - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Jester \Jest"er\, n. [Cf. Gestour.]
     1. A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool.
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              This . . . was Yorick's skull, the king's jester.
                                                    --Shak.
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              Dressed in the motley garb that jesters wear.
                                                    --Longfellow.
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     2. A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light
        and amusing talk.
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              He ambled up and down
              With shallow jesters.                 --Shak.
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jester - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  jester
      n 1: a professional clown employed to entertain a king or
           nobleman in the Middle Ages [syn: jester, fool, motley fool
           ]

jester - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  53 Moby Thesaurus words for "jester":
     Columbine, Hanswurst, Harlequin, Pantalone, Pantaloon,
     Polichinelle, Pulcinella, Punch, Punchinello, Scaramouch, banana,
     buffo, buffoon, burlesquer, caricaturist, clown, comedian, comic,
     cutup, droll, epigrammatist, fool, funnyman, gag writer, gagman,
     gagster, harlequin, humorist, idiot, ironist, jack-pudding, joker,
     jokesmith, jokester, lampooner, madcap, merry-andrew, motley,
     motley fool, parodist, pickle-herring, prankster, punner, punster,
     quipster, reparteeist, satirist, wag, wagwit, wisecracker, wit,
     witling, zany