comedian
noun/kəˈmiːdiən/
/kəˈmiːdiən/
- a person whose job is to make people laugh by giving a funny performance, for example by telling jokes or funny stories
- He started out as a stand-up comedian in Liverpool.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- great
- popular
- radio
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- (often ironic) a person who is funny or thinks they are funny
- The speaker was a bit of a comedian, so it was an amusing session.
Word Originlate 16th cent. (denoting a comic playwright): from French comédien, from Old French comedie, via Latin from Greek kōmōidia, from kōmōidos ‘comic poet’, from kōmos ‘revel’ + aoidos ‘singer’. The sense ‘entertainer’ dates from the late 19th cent.
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