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noun a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts
noun an actor in a comedy
originFrom French comédien, from comédie + -ien, from Old French comedie, from Latin cōmoedia, from Ancient Greek κωμῳδία (kōmōidía). By surface analysis, comed(y) + -ian.
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