'Jester' definitions:
Definition of 'jester'
(from WordNet)
noun
A professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages [syn: jester, fool, motley fool]
Definition of 'Jester'
From: GCIDE
- Jester \Jest"er\, n. [Cf. Gestour.]
- 1. A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool. [1913 Webster]
- This . . . was Yorick's skull, the king's jester. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Dressed in the motley garb that jesters wear. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light and amusing talk. [1913 Webster]
- He ambled up and down With shallow jesters. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'jester'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- banana,
- buffo,
- buffoon,
- burlesquer,
- caricaturist,
- clown,
- Columbine,
- comedian,
- comic,
- cutup,
- droll,
- epigrammatist,
- fool,
- funnyman,
- gag writer,
- gagman,
- gagster,
- Hanswurst,
- harlequin,
- Harlequin,
- humorist,
- idiot,
- ironist,
- jack-pudding,
- joker,
- jokesmith,
- jokester,
- lampooner,
- madcap,
- merry-andrew,
- motley,
- motley fool,
- Pantalone,
- Pantaloon,
- parodist,
- pickle-herring,
- Polichinelle,
- prankster,
- Pulcinella,
- Punch,
- Punchinello,
- punner,
- punster,
- quipster,
- reparteeist,
- satirist,
- Scaramouch,
- wag,
- wagwit,
- wisecracker,
- wit,
- witling,
- zany