comedian

noun

/kəˈmiːdiən/

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a person whose job is to make people laugh by telling jokes or funny stories
- He started out as a stand-up comedian in Liverpool.
Topics Jobsb2
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- great
- popular
- radio
- …
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(often ironic) a person who is funny or thinks they are funny
- The speaker was a bit of a comedian, so it was an amusing session.

Word Originlate 16th cent. (denoting a comic playwright): from French comédien, from Old French comedie, via Latin from Greek kōmōidia, from kōmōidos ‘comic poet’, from kōmos ‘revel’ + aoidos ‘singer’. The sense ‘entertainer’ dates from the late 19th cent.

单词	comedian
释义	comedian noun /kəˈmiːdiən/ /kəˈmiːdiən/ jump to other results a person whose job is to make people laugh by telling jokes or funny stories He started out as a stand-up comedian in Liverpool. Topics Jobsb2 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective great popular radio … See full entry (often ironic) a person who is funny or thinks they are funny The speaker was a bit of a comedian, so it was an amusing session. Word Originlate 16th cent. (denoting a comic playwright): from French comédien, from Old French comedie, via Latin from Greek kōmōidia, from kōmōidos ‘comic poet’, from kōmos ‘revel’ + aoidos ‘singer’. The sense ‘entertainer’ dates from the late 19th cent.
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