Jaques

American  

[jey-kweez, -kwiz, jeyks] / ˈdʒeɪ kwiz, -kwɪz, dʒeɪks /

noun

1. a disillusioned and satirical observer of life, in Shakespeare's As You Like It.

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Other Word Forms

• Jaquesian
  adjective

Example Sentences

Tirzah and 13-year-old Jaques “Jake” Patterson recently opened up about coping with immense grief after a mass shooting, an unceasing story across the nation.

From Seattle Times • May 11, 2023

Jaques, who is from Toronto, is the first Buckeye to win the award and the second-ever defender.

From Washington Times • Mar. 18, 2023

In his Times Opinion newsletter, Peter Coy examines the midlife crisis, a term coined by Elliott Jaques, a Canadian psychoanalyst, in 1965.

From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2022

“It’s supercool work,” says Natasha Jaques, a computer scientist at Google who studies machine learning but who was not involved with the research.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 18, 2022

Now, however, Jaques and his wife were waiting to discuss them.

From The Secret of the Reef by Bindloss, Harold