FromMiddle Englishgeste(“idle tale”), fromOld Frenchgeste(“acts, exploits”), fromLatingesta(“acts, deeds”).Doublet ofgest.

• enPR:jĕst,IPA^(key):/d͡ʒɛst/

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  • Rhymes:-ɛst
• (dialectal,obsolete)enPR:jēst,IPA^(key):/d͡ʒiːst/^[1]
• (Early Modern)IPA^(key):/d͡ʒɛst/,/d͡ʒɛːst/^[2]

jest (pluraljests)

1. (archaic) Anactperformed foramusement; ajoke.

   I made that commentinjest; it wasn't serious.

   • c.1599–1602 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act V, scene i],page278, column 1:

     Alas pooreYorick, I knew himHoratio, a fellow of infiniteIeſt;[…]

2. (archaic) Someone or something that isridiculed; the target of ajoke.

   Your majesty, stop him before he makes you thejest of the court.

   • c.1597 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act III, scene iii],page58, column 2:

     Why then make ſport at me, then let me be yourieſt, / I deſerue it[…]

3. (obsolete) A deed; an action; agest.
   • 1540,Thomas Elyot,Image of Governance:

     thejests or actions of princes

4. (obsolete) Amask; apageant; aninterlude.
   • c.1587 (date written), [Thomas Kyd],The Spanish Tragedie: […] (Fourth Quarto), London:[…] W[illiam] W[hite] forT[homas] Pauier, […], published1602,→OCLC,(please specify the page):

     He promised us, in honour of our guest, / To grace our banquet with some pompousjest.

• (joke):prank,gag,laughingstock,banter,crack,wisecrack,witticism
• See alsoThesaurus:joke

• in jest

jest (third-person singular simple presentjests,present participlejesting,simple past and past participlejested)

1. To tell a joke; totalk in aplayful manner; to make fun of something or someone.

   Surely youjest!

• (to joke):banter,kid,mock,tease

• jester
• jestingly

•  jest on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Pronunciation spelling ofjust..

jest (notcomparable)

1. (African-American Vernacular,Southern US)Alternative spelling ofjust

• ESTJ,Jets,jets

Inherited fromOld Czechjest, fromProto-Slavic*estь, fromProto-Indo-European*h₁es-.

• IPA^(key):[ˈjɛst]

jest

1. (literary,obsolete)third-personsingularpresentindicative ofbýt

   Synonym:je

• jester

FromOld Norsejǫstr, fromProto-Germanic*jestuz, whenceEnglishyeast.

• IPA^(key):/jest/
• Homophone:gjest

jest m (definite singularjesten,indefinite pluraljester,definite pluraljestene)

1. yeast

   Synonym:gjær

• ese

• “jest” inThe Bokmål Dictionary.
• “jest” inDet Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

• jester
• gjester (non-standard since1938)

FromOld Norsejǫstr, fromProto-Germanic*jestuz, whence alsoEnglishyeast.

• IPA^(key):/jɛst/
• Homophone:gjest

jest m (definite singularjesten,indefinite pluraljestar,definite pluraljestane)

1. yeast

   Synonym:gjær

• asa,ase
• esa,ese

• “jest” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary.

Inherited fromProto-Slavic*estь.

• IPA^(key):(13^th CE)/ˈjɛst/
• IPA^(key):(15^th CE)/ˈjɛst/

jest

1. third-personsingularpresentindicative ofbýti

• Czech:jest

Inherited fromOld Polishjest, fromProto-Slavic*estь, fromProto-Balto-Slavic*esti, fromProto-Indo-European*h₁ésti.

• IPA^(key):/ˈjɛst/

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• Rhymes:-ɛst
• Syllabification:jest

jest

1. third-personsingularpresentindicative ofbyć;is

   Onajest ładna. ―She's pretty.

   Agnieszkajest studentką. ―Agnieszka is a student.

2. (mathematics) is, equals(see alsowynosi)

   dwa plus dwajest cztery. ―Two plus two is four.

jest (Cyrillic spellingјест)

1. third-personsingularpresent ofbȉti

   Synonym:je

Borrowed fromFrenchgeste

• IPA^(key):/ʒest/

jest (definite accusativejesti,pluraljestler)

1. gesture