Comedian

Quick meaning: Comedian is a noun meaning An entertainer who performs in a humorous manner, especially by telling jokes.

Meaning

An entertainer who performs in a humorous manner, especially by telling jokes.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) Any person who is humorous or amusing, either characteristically or on a particular occasion.
2. (dated) A person who performs in theatrical plays.
3. (obsolete) A writer of comedies.

Example Sentences

[…] the quick comedians Extemporally will stage us, and present Our Alexandrian revels;

Becky, the nightingale, took the flowers which he threw to her and pressed them to her heart with the air of a consummate comedian.

It's been my job for many years and taken me to many places, and into many a tight spot, but, on the railway, you'll always find a comedian in the gang, to raise a laugh and keep you going.

1783, Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, London: Whitestone et al., Volume 3, Lecture 47, p. 377, […] the Dramatic Author, in whom the French glory most, and whom they justly place at the head of all their Comedians, is, the famous Moliere.

Word Forms

• comedians
• comedienne

Synonyms for comedian

Depending on context, synonyms include funnyman, funnywoman, comic, laughsmith, card, cutup.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include comic, sitcom, performer, entertainer, actress, fun.

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