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Meanings of
jester
in English
Russian
дурак
Portuguese
bobo
Spanish
albardán
Catalan
bufó
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Historical entertainer.
fool
fools
motley fool
Related terms
historical profession
Russian
дурак
Russian
шут
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Profession.
jesters
court jester
court jesters
Related terms
profession
Russian
шут
Synonyms
Examples for "
jesters
"
jesters
court jester
court jesters
Examples for "
jesters
"
1
The
jesters
and buffoons shame them out of everything grand and elevated.
2
The children might have been his
jesters
,
and the dogs his princes.
3
We are court
jesters
,
we are clowns, that's what we do.
4
The performers are like court
jesters
,
waiting on the favors of a queen.
5
Sycophants, courtiers,
jesters
,
imbecile sons of princes, became great ecclesiastical dignitaries.
1
The real gangsters saw him as a buffoon, a harmless
court
jester
.
2
Johannes Blackboots had allowed Renfrow the freedom of a
court
jester
.
3
Chelsea, of course, have not forked out on a
court
jester
.
4
Evidently, Green Lantern the Justice League's
court
jester
until someone takes his ring.
5
I'd become his
court
jester
and that was fine by me.
1
We are
court
jesters
,
we are clowns, that's what we do.
2
The performers are like
court
jesters
,
waiting on the favors of a queen.
3
They are the
court
jesters
at the palace of the real power players in America.
4
Some fans are already here in the upper tiers of the stadium bumbling around like
court
jesters
.
5
As
court
jesters
tweaking the nose of the powerful, they are quite possibly helping to keep the nation sane.
Someone who makes jokes.
clown
joker
Usage of
jester
in English
1
The mountebank is wanted in the streets, the
jester
at the Louvre.
2
The real gangsters saw him as a buffoon, a harmless court
jester
.
3
The king frowned, and cast an angry glance on the bold
jester
.
4
He was to the last fond of pleasantry and kept a
jester
.
5
It looked to her as if the
jester
had taken the throne.
6
I couldn't see anything funny about the soldier the
jester
pointed to.
7
Now one day, the all-privileged
jester
of the King, said, laughing harshly:
8
As I suspected, the
jester
began to warn his friend once more.
9
He had clad himself in
jester
's
garb to feel for the truth.
10
Only Maulo, the camp
jester
,
hurled a facetious comment at the corpse.
11
For some moments she lay there, and above her stood the
jester
.
12
The man who reverses the Fifth flippant
jester
,
but a philosophic thinker.
13
The
jester
's
inventions are supposed to be amusing but not excessively so.
14
He was not a madman, but he certainly was an extravagant
jester
.
15
Of this, as a tavern
jester
himself, he would be pointedly conscious.
16
Lawrence took the cap from Quinn, acting as
jester
to the king.
Other examples for "jester"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
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jester
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
say the jester
old jester
great jester
professional jester
audacious jester
More collocations
Translations for
jester
Russian
дурак
придворный шут
шут
Portuguese
bobo
bufão
bobo-da-corte
arlequim
bobos da corte
truão
bobo da corte
Spanish
albardán
albardan
bufón
bufon
Catalan
bufó
Jester
through the time
Jester
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common