Comedian
Definitions
- 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.
Equivalents
35 more languages
Catalàcòmic
Suomikoomikko
עבריתליצן
हिन्दीकॉमेडियन
Íslenskagrínisti
Македонскикомичар
Bahasa Melayupelawak
မြန်မာဟာသမင်းသား
پښتوټوکي
Shqipargëtues
Svenskakomiker
Tagalogkomedyante
Türkçekomedyen
Tiếng Việtdiễn viên hài
Examples
“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.”
“[…] 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.”
“This doth the Comedy handle⟳ ſo in our priuate and domeſtical matters, as with hearing it, we get⟳ as it were an experience⟳, what is to be looked for of a nigardly Demea: of a crafty Danus: of a flattering Gnato: of a vaine glorious Thraſo: and not onely to know⟳ what effects are to be expected, but to know⟳ who be ſuch, by the ſignifying badge giuen them by the Comedian.”
“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, […] 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.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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