comedian

Other forms of comedian

plural

comedians·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about comedian

What does comedian mean?

comedian means "a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in comedian?

comedian has 4 syllables: co-me-di-an. The stress falls on "me". In IPA it is /kəˈmidiən/.

What is another word for comedian?

Close synonyms include comic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is comedian a common word?

comedian is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with comedian?

1 word rhymes with comedian. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.