Jester
['dʒestə] or ['dʒɛstɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages.
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Definition
(n.) A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool.
(n.) A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light and amusing talk.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Joker, wag, humorist.[2]. Buffoon, harlequin, mountebank, zany, droll, fool, clown, punch, punchinello, scaramouch, merry-Andrew, jack-pudding, pickle-herring.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a jester, foretells you will ignore important things in looking after silly affairs.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. An officer formerly attached to a king's household whose business it was to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances the absurdity being attested by his motley costume. The king himself being attired with dignity it took the world some centuries to discover that his own conduct and decrees were sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind. The jester was commonly called a fool but the poets and romancers have ever delighted to represent him as a singularly wise and witty person. In the circus of to-day the melancholy ghost of the court fool effects the dejection of humbler audiences with the same jests wherewith in life he gloomed the marble hall panged the patrician sense of humor and tapped the tank of royal tears.
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Examples
- Knave upon fool were worse, answered the Jester, and Jew upon bacon worst of all. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Our master was too ready to fight, said the Jester; and Athelstane was not ready enough, and no other person was ready at all. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The Jester next struck into another carol, a sort of comic ditty, to which the Knight, catching up the tune, replied in the like manner. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Wit, Sir Knight, replied the Jester, may do much. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Wait yet a moment, good uncle, said the Jester, in his natural tone; better look long before you leap in the dark. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- No, said the Jester, grinning, but they may reach Sheffield if they have good luck, and that is as fit a place for them. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- And I would laugh at it, said the honest Jester, if I could for weeping. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Gurth, said the Jester, I know thou thinkest me a fool, or thou wouldst not be so rash in putting thy head into my mouth. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Thou sayst well, said the Jester; had I been born a Norman, as I think thou art, I would have had luck on my side, and been next door to a wise man. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Knowest thou, said the Jester, my good friend Gurth, that thou art strangely courteous and most unwontedly pious on this summer morning? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I have left my shield in the tilt-yard, answered the Jester, as has been the fate of many a better knight than myself. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- To bid you prepare yourselves for death, answered the Jester. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- And the indignant swineherd resumed his sullen silence, which no efforts of the Jester could again induce him to break. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- So saying, he turned back to the mansion, attended by the Jester. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- A fool by right of descent, answered the Jester; I am Wamba, the son of Witless, who was the son of Weatherbrain, who was the son of an Alderman. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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