tragedian

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an actor who specializes in tragic roles

   The celebrated tragedian made the doomed king both proud and vulnerable.

2. 2
   noun

   a playwright or other writer of tragedies

   Sophocles remains one of the most influential tragedians of ancient Greece.

From Middle English tragedyen and Old French tragediane, ultimately built on Latin tragoedia and Greek tragodia ('tragedy') with the person-forming suffix -ian. It has long denoted both a performer in tragic drama and an author of tragedies.

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