Ask Jeeves
Ask Jeeves verb: to search for (something) on the Internet using the Ask Jeeves search engine.
Verb
Ask Jeeves (third-person singular simple present Asks Jeeves, present participle Asking Jeeves, simple past and past participle Asked Jeeves)
- To search for (something) on the Internet using the Ask Jeeves search engine.
- Back then Google was still only a small private American company set up by two Stanford University students rather than a globally-recognised verb for finding information online. When we Asked Jeeves about progeria only 2,200 web pages appeared and many of those lacked hard information and facts.2011, Hayley Okines, Kerry Okines, Alison Stokes, “Kerry; Learning to Live with Progeria”, in Old Before My Time, Accent Press Ltd, →ISBN, page 23
- “I’ve Googled it, Binged it, and Asked Jeeves. They all say the same thing, but I’m not convinced.”2015, Sarah Weeks, Honey, New York, N.Y.: Scholastic Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 53
Forms of Ask Jeeves
| third-person singular present | Asks Jeeves |
|---|---|
| present participle | Asking Jeeves |
| past participle | Asked Jeeves |
| past | Asked Jeeves |
Origin of Ask Jeeves
From Ask Jeeves, a search engine named after Jeeves, a fictional valet in the works of P. G. Wodehouse.
Questions about Ask Jeeves
- What does Ask Jeeves mean?
- Ask Jeeves means to search for (something) on the Internet using the Ask Jeeves search engine.
- What part of speech is Ask Jeeves?
- Ask Jeeves is a verb.
- What is the past tense of Ask Jeeves?
- The past tense of Ask Jeeves is Asked Jeeves.
Words near Ask Jeeves in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Ask Jeeves (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “Ask Jeeves.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ask_jeeves. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.