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comedian
English
Etymology
comedy +? -ian. From Middle French comédien, from comédie (“comedy”).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /k??mi?di.?n/
Noun
comedian (plural comedians) (feminine: comedienne)
- An entertainer who performs in a humorous manner, especially by telling jokes.
- Synonym: comic
- (by extension) Any person who is humorous or amusing, either characteristically or on a particular occasion.
- Synonyms: card, cutup, gagster, joker, wag, wit
- (dated) A person who performs in theatrical plays.
- Synonyms: actor, player, thespian
- c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act V, Scene 2,[1]
- […] the quick comedians
- Extemporally will stage us, and present
- Our Alexandrian revels;
- 1714, Susanna Centlivre, The Wonder, London: E. Curll and A. Bettesworth, Preface,[2]
- 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.
- 1755, George Colman, The Connaisseur, London: R. Baldwin, Volume 1, p. 1,[3]
- 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.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 51,[4]
- Becky, the nightingale, took the flowers which he threw to her and pressed them to her heart with the air of a consummate comedian.
- (obsolete) A writer of comedies.
- 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica, London, p. 5,[5]
- Neither is it recorded that the writings of those old Comedians were supprest, though the acting of them were forbid;
- 1783, Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, London: Whitestone et al., Volume 3, Lecture 47, p. 377,[6]
- […] 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.
- 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica, London, p. 5,[5]
Synonyms
- funnyman/funnywoman
Hypernyms
- (male comedian): comedian (male and female)
Hyponyms
- (comedian, male and female): comedian (male), comedienne (female)
See also
- tragedian
Translations
Anagrams
- daemonic, demoniac, dæmonic, midocean
Romanian
Etymology
From French comédien.
Noun
comedian m (plural comedieni)
- comedian
Declension
comedian From the web:
- what comedian died
- what comedian died recently
- what comedian died today
- what comedian died yesterday
- what comedians have died
- what comedian just passed away
- what comedian passed away
comic
English
Etymology
From Latin comicus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (k?mikós, “relating to comedy”), from ????? (kômos, “carousal”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k?m?k/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k?m?k/
- Rhymes: -?m?k
Adjective
comic (comparative more comic, superlative most comic)
- Funny; amusing; comical.
- Relating to comedy.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:funny
- (comedy): comedic, comical
Related terms
- comedian
- comical
- comicality
- comically
- comicalness
- comic strip
Translations
Noun
comic (plural comics)
- A comedian.
- A story composed of cartoon images arranged in sequence, usually with textual captions; a graphic novel.
- (Britain) A children's newspaper.
Related terms
- comic book
- comic strip
- comics
- stand-up comic
Translations
Romanian
Etymology
From French comique, from Latin comicus.
Adjective
comic m or n (feminine singular comic?, masculine plural comici, feminine and neuter plural comice)
- comical
Declension
Spanish
Noun
comic m (plural comics)
- Misspelling of cómic.
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