Jester

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  • noun. One given to jesting.
  • noun. A fool or buffoon at medieval courts.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A story-teller; a reciter of tales, adventures, and romances.
  • noun. One who is addicted to jesting; one who is given to witticisms, jokes, and pranks.
  • noun. A court-fool or professed sayer of witty things and maker of amusement, maintained by a prince or noble in the middle ages and later.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool.
  • noun. A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light and amusing talk.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. one who jests, jokes or mocks
  • noun. a person in bright garb and fool’s cap who amused a mediaeval royal court.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages
    • Word Usage
    "You know, and they used to say that the jester is the only person who could tell the truth to the king."
    cross-reference
    jesters' helmet  
    Form
    court jester  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    buffoon  clown  goof  goofball  merry-andrew  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Chester  Esther  Hester  Kester  Leicester  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    buffoon  clown  harlequin  impostor  minstrel  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Columbine  Hanswurst  Harlequin  Pantalone  Pantaloon  
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