comedian
Meanings
Plural: comedians
Noun
- a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts
- an actor in a comedy
- An entertainer who performs in a humorous manner, especially by telling jokes.
- Any person who is humorous or amusing, either characteristically or on a particular occasion.
- A person who performs in theatrical plays.
- A writer of comedies.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin cōmoedia + -an, perhaps modelled on Middle French comédien. By surface analysis, comedy + -an.
Synonyms
actor, card, comic, cutup, funnyman, funnywoman, gagster, joker, laughsmith, player, thespian, wag, wit
Scrabble Score: 13
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