comedian, comic
(noun) a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts
comedian
(noun) an actor in a comedy
Source: WordNet® 3.1
comedian (plural comedians) (feminine: comedienne)
An entertainer who performs in a humorous manner, especially by telling jokes.
Synonym: comic
(by extension) Any person who is humorous or amusing, either characteristically or on a particular occasion.
Synonyms: card, cutup, gagster, joker, wag, wit
(dated) A person who performs in theatrical plays.
Synonyms: actor, player, thespian
(obsolete) A writer of comedies.
• funnyman/funnywoman
• (male comedian): comedian (male and female)
• (comedian, male and female): comedian (male), comedienne (female)
• daemonic, demoniac, dæmonic, midocean
Source: Wiktionary
Co*me"di*an, n. Etym: [Cf. F. comédien.]
1. An actor or player in comedy. "The famous comedian, Roscius." Middleton.
2. A writer of comedy. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
7 February 2025
(noun) a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; “he writes stories for the magazines”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
