comedian

Etymology
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Noun
(feminine: comedienne)


 * 1) An entertainer who performs in a humorous manner, especially by telling jokes.
 * 2)  Any person who is humorous or amusing, either characteristically or on a particular occasion.
 * 3)  A person who performs in theatrical plays.
 * 4) * 1714,, 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.
 * 1)  A writer of comedies.
 * 2) * 1783,, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, London: Whitestone et al., Volume 3, Lecture47, 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.
 * 1) * 1714,, 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.
 * 1)  A writer of comedies.
 * 2) * 1783,, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, London: Whitestone et al., Volume 3, Lecture47, 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.
 * 1) * 1783,, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, London: Whitestone et al., Volume 3, Lecture47, 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.
 * 1) * 1783,, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, London: Whitestone et al., Volume 3, Lecture47, 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.

Hyponyms

 * , comedienne

Derived terms

 * prop comedian

Translations

 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic: كُومِيدْيَان
 * Armenian:, , ,
 * Belarusian: гумары́ст, ко́мік, камедыя́нт
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: comediant,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 喜劇演員
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: komikisto
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: კომიკოსი, იუმორისტი
 * German:, , , ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: aisteoir coiméide
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: コメディアン
 * Korean:, ,
 * Latvian: komiķis, komiķe, humorists, humoriste
 * Malay:
 * Maori: kaiwhakakata, kiri hangareka
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: komiker
 * Nynorsk: komikar
 * Occitan:
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish: humorista,, , standupero, cuentachistes
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: komedyante
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: гумори́ст,, комедіа́нт
 * Vietnamese: diễn viên hài, nghệ sĩ hài
 * Welsh: comedïwr, comedïwyr

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