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# comedian

«comedian» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person whose job is to make people laugh by telling…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a comedian, comedians)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A comedian is a person whose job is to make people laugh by telling jokes or doing funny things, on stage, on TV or in films. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comedian/#m1)

2) A comedian is also anyone who is always being funny (a class comedian). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comedian/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life comedians perform stand-up comedy or act in funny shows. At school «the class comedian» or «class clown» likes to make others laugh. Phrases: stand-up comedian, a famous comedian, a bit of a comedian.

### examples

- The comedian told a joke and everyone laughed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comedian/#x1)
- My uncle wants to be a stand-up comedian. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comedian/#x2)
- Charlie Chaplin was a famous comedian in silent films. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comedian/#x3)
- Tom is a bit of a comedian in our class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comedian/#x4)
- The comedian made funny faces on TV. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comedian/#x5)
- A good comedian knows when to pause. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/comedian/#x6)

### note

Countable: a comedian, comedians. Stress: co-ME-di-an. Related: comedy, comic. «Comedienne» is an older word for a female comedian; today «comedian» is used for everyone.

### In the corpora

- [An impression copies how a famous person talks and moves; comedians in many countries have mocked leaders for hundreds of years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/13-memes-clips-and-jokes-about-politicians/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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