Definitions for jester

jester jest·er

Spelling: [jes-ter]
IPA: /ˈdʒɛs tər/

Jester is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in jester (eejrst).

Definitions for jester

noun

  1. a person who is given to witticisms, jokes, and pranks.
  2. a professional fool or clown, especially at a medieval court.

Origin of jester

First recorded in 1325-75, jester is from the Middle English word gester. See gest, -er1

Examples for jester

When the jester had left them to go upon his errand, Francesco turned to his companion.

I was just a jester and no more, and so, in a measure—though I blush to say it—I grew content.

Yes (replied the jester), he has a striking likeness to that person and a heap of others.

My poor boy, he who is sitting in sackcloth and ashes needs no jester.

This being determined, they departed, leaving the Count in the company of the jester.

And as he rode he told them what the jester's quick intuition had already whispered to him.

Come on (the jester shouted), give us a tune upon the pipe, and let me show you how to dance.

Or if there is a despot, 'tis the king's jester, who laughs at the king as well as all his subjects.

“I mean a man sad and grave as the monks of Beaulieu,” said the jester.

And he does so not with the wit and winking of the jester, but with the blunt ferocity of the herald.

Word Value for jester
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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