comedian
/kəˈmiː.di.ən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.96 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An entertainer who performs in a humorous manner, especially by telling jokes.
noun
Any person who is humorous or amusing, either characteristically or on a particular occasion.
Example Sentences
- "According to Jared Freid, a 39-year-old comedian and co-host of the dating podcast "U Up?," this is known as hoodfishing, a coinage — though not his own — referring to people claiming to be from the city they are dating in but really are living somewhere else entirely."
- "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."
- "[…] the quick comedians Extemporally will stage us, and present Our Alexandrian revels;"
- "1714, Susanna Centlivre, The Wonder, London: E. Curll and A. Bettesworth, Preface, I Don’t pretend to write a Preface, either to point out the Beauties, or to excuse the Errors, a judicious Reader may possibly discover in the following Scenes, but to give those excellent Comedians their Due, to whom, in some Measure the best Dramatick Writers are oblig’d."
- "When a Comedian, celebrated for his excellence in the part of Shylock, first undertook that character, he made daily visits to the center of business, the ’Change, and the adjacent Coffee-houses; that by a frequent intercourse and conversation with “the unforeskinn’d race,” he might habituate himself to their air and deportment."
- "Becky, the nightingale, took the flowers which he threw to her and pressed them to her heart with the air of a consummate comedian."
Etymology
From French comédien, from comédie + -ien, from Old French comedie, from Latin cōmoedia, from Ancient Greek κωμῳδία (kōmōidía). By surface analysis, comed(y) + -ian.
Origin
- Source language: French