JEST
\d͡ʒˈɛst], \dʒˈɛst], \dʒ_ˈɛ_s_t]\
Definitions of JEST
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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activity characterized by good humor
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a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter; "he told a very funny joke"; "he knows a million gags"; "thanks for the laugh"; "he laughed unpleasantly at hisown jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point"
By Princeton University
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A deed; an action; a gest.
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A mask; a pageant; an interlude.
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Something done or said in order to amuse; a joke; a witticism; a jocose or sportive remark or phrase. See Synonyms under Jest, v. i.
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The object of laughter or sport; a laughingstock.
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To make merriment by words or actions; to joke; to make light of anything.
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To take part in a merrymaking; - especially, to act in a mask or interlude.
By Oddity Software
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A deed; an action; a gest.
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A mask; a pageant; an interlude.
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Something done or said in order to amuse; a joke; a witticism; a jocose or sportive remark or phrase. See Synonyms under Jest, v. i.
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The object of laughter or sport; a laughingstock.
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To make merriment by words or actions; to joke; to make light of anything.
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To take part in a merrymaking; - especially, to act in a mask or interlude.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Something ludicrous: joke: fun: something uttered in sport: object of laughter.
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To make a jest or merriment.
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JESTINGLY.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
