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# buffoon

«buffoon» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who acts silly or clownish to make others laugh…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (buffoons)

### meaning for a pupil

A person who acts silly or clownish to make others laugh; a clown or fool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buffoon/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a performer who makes the crowd laugh in a show or contest

### examples

- The buffoon grunted and squeaked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buffoon/#x1)
- The buffoon stood alone on the platform. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buffoon/#x2)
- The crowd laughed at the buffoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buffoon/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «buffoon» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/buffoon/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.