comedian

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Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

  1. noun a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts
  2. noun an actor in a comedy

Etymology

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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Synonyms

comic

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