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comedian
Alternative clues for the word comedian
Word definitions for comedian in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Comedian \Co*me"di*an\, n. [Cf. F. com['e]dien.] An actor or player in comedy. ``The famous comedian, Roscius.'' --Middleton. A writer of comedy. --Milton. [1913 Webster] ||
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts [syn: comic ] an actor in a comedy
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "comic poet," later (c.1600) "stage actor in comedies," also, generally, "actor," from Middle French comédien , from comédie (see comedy ). Meaning "professional joke-teller, etc." is from 1898.
Usage examples of comedian.
Tom is married to the sister of Bartley, the comedian, and carries with him into private life the estimation which ever attends him in public.
Ray Douglas Bradbury shares with comedian Jack Benny the distinction of having been born in Waukegan, Illinois.
From the 7th October to the end of December, 1780, on the occasions of the representations given by a troupe of French comedians at the San Angelo theater, Casanova wrote a little paper called The Messenger of Thalia.
It was a look that drew teenie-boppers and at the same time assured Mom and Dad that he was really an okay guy, probably a class cutup but nothing to worry about, kike the assessment from another ABC brain-anail-American comedian.
He was followed by the French and the Italian comedians, and by the actors and actresses of the opera.
All of them -- fifteen or so including Huggins, Pineapple, Wright, Farneti, Barber, Shock, and an aspiring comedian named Mark Wilkes -- hung out between sets in the greenroom, a small, dark space with fake-wood paneling and a beer-stained floor, talking and drinking, all of them wired from stage time.
The shrinkbot takes him back through early childhood rejections, and all the time Carlton is monitoring him and taking notes on the Intrapsychic Personality Problems of the White Face Comedian.
I suppose that Lupinus, the learned student, who will receive his diploma at the end of a few weeks, would tear himself from the arms of his beloved Science, to go with a comedian before the king, and bear witness for the hated and despised actors?
Aisles, the first aion comedian, chuckled, drained his beer, and blew a note like the bellowing of a cow for her calf across the neck.
Internet tended to capture the imaginations of FM disc jockeys, sports announcers, and late-night comedians.
Whether from fickleness or from jealousy, he abandoned the Fragoletta, and joined in Venice a troop of comedians then giving performances at the Saint-Samuel Theatre.
The Italian comedians obtained at that time permission to perform parodies of operas and of tragedies.
He found Manhattan audiences a little cold, though New York comedians he knew from the road such as Dave Attell, Jon Stewart, and Ray Romano often stuck around after their own sets to watch him.
It was a nightclub to accommodate bad comedians, a theater-in-the-round for acrobats and animal acts, even subway seating for buskers with guitar cases open at their feet for tips.
The former husband was a nightclub comedian of Puerto Rican extraction named Jerry Cha-cha Rivera, who was shot as an innocent bystander during the robbery of a RAMJAC carwash in Hollywood.