What part of speech is jest?

Jest can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. jest is a verb, present, 1st person singular of jest (infinitive).
  • 2. jest is a verb (infinitive).
  • 3. jest is a noun, singular of jests.

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Verb

Noun

What does jest mean?

Definitions

Verb
jest - To tell a joke; to talk in a playful manner; to make fun of something or someone.

Noun
jest - activity characterized by good humor
jest - 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 his own jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point"
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Examples of jest

#   Sentence  
1. noun He laughed unpleasantly at his own jest.
2. noun Are you in jest or in earnest?
3. noun Many a true word is spoken in jest.
4. noun I said so purely in jest.
5. noun He said so in jest.
6. noun There's many a true word spoken in jest.
7. noun I said it in jest.
8. noun The question was a serious one, but he answered half in jest.
9. noun Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it.
10. noun The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
11. noun It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.
12. noun It has been a standing jest in the family that nothing could ever wake me during the night.
13. noun The whole struck her as so ridiculous that, despite every effort to the contrary, she burst into a fit of incontrollable laughter, in which she was joined by her father, though with more moderation, and finally by the Master of Ravenswood himself, though conscious that the jest was at his own expense.
14. noun So Lot went out, and spoke to his sons in law that were to have his daughters, and said: Arise: get you out of this place, because the Lord will destroy this city. And he seemed to them to speak as it were in jest.
15. verb It is impudent of you to jest at him.
16. verb Don't jest!
Sentence  
noun
He laughed unpleasantly at his own jest.
Are you in jest or in earnest?
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
I said so purely in jest.
He said so in jest.
There's many a true word spoken in jest.
I said it in jest.
The question was a serious one, but he answered half in jest.
Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it.
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.
It has been a standing jest in the family that nothing could ever wake me during the night.
The whole struck her as so ridiculous that, despite every effort to the contrary, she burst into a fit of incontrollable laughter, in which she was joined by her father, though with more moderation, and finally by the Master of Ravenswood himself, though conscious that the jest was at his own expense.
So Lot went out, and spoke to his sons in law that were to have his daughters, and said: Arise: get you out of this place, because the Lord will destroy this city. And he seemed to them to speak as it were in jest.
verb
It is impudent of you to jest at him.
Don't jest!
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