comedian

co-me-di-an · noun

imported

Definitions

noun

  1. 1.

    A professional entertainer who performs comedy, telling jokes and humorous stories to amuse an audience.

  2. 2.

    An actor who plays comic roles in films, television, or theater.

  3. 3.

    (informal) A person who is amusing or tries to be funny.

Forms

plural: comedians

Related words

Antonyms: tragedian
See also: comedy, comic, entertainer, humorist
Synonyms: comic, entertainer, humorist, joker

Etymology

From French comedien ("actor"), from comedie ("comedy"), ultimately from Greek komoidia ("comedy"). The specific sense of someone who performs humor developed in the 19th century.