n.
- A professional entertainer who tells jokes or performs various other comic acts.
- An actor in comedy.
- A writer of comedy.
- A person who amuses or tries to be amusing; a clown.
[French comédien, player, comedian, from comédie, comedy, from Medieval Latin cōmēdia. See comedy.]
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