Jest vs Guest - What's the difference?
jest | guest |
(archaic) An act performed for amusement; a joke.
* Sheridan
(archaic) Someone or something that is ridiculed; the target of a joke.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A deed; an action; a gest.
* Sir T. Elyot
(obsolete) A mask; a pageant; an interlude.
* Kyd
To tell a joke; to talk in a playful manner; to make fun of something or someone.
A recipient of hospitality, specifically someone staying by invitation at the house of another.
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A patron or customer in a hotel etc.
An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast.
to appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast
as a musician, to play as a guest, providing an instrument that a band/orchestra does not normally have in its line up (for instance, percussion in a string band)
(obsolete) To receive or entertain hospitably.
As a noun jest
is (archaic) an act performed for amusement; a joke.As a verb jest
is to tell a joke; to talk in a playful manner; to make fun of something or someone .As a proper noun guest is
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English
Noun
(en noun)- The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests , and to his imagination for his facts.
- Your majesty, stop him before he makes you the jest of the court.
- Then let me be your jest ; I deserve it.
- the jests or actions of princes
- (Nares)
- He promised us, in honour of our guest, / To grace our banquet with some pompous jest .
Synonyms
* (joke) prank, gag, laughingstock, banter, crack, wisecrack, witticism * See alsoVerb
(en verb)- Surely you jest !
Synonyms
* (to joke) banter, kid, mock, teaseDerived terms
* (l) * (l)See also
* (wikipedia "jest")Anagrams
* ----guest
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(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- (Sylvester)