comedian

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A performer whose job is to make people laugh, usually by telling jokes.

   The comedian had the whole audience laughing within minutes.

2. 2
   noun

   A person who is naturally funny or likes to make others laugh.

   My brother is a real comedian and always cheers everyone up.

From French comédien, from comédie + -ien, from Old French comedie, from Latin cōmoedia, from Ancient Greek κωμῳδία (kōmōidía). By surface analysis, comed(y) + -ian.

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