comedian

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

com·edian [comedian comedians] BrE [kəˈmiːdiən] NAmE [kəˈmiːdiən] noun
an entertainer who makes people laugh by telling jokes or funny stories
•a stand-up comedian

Word Origin:
late 16th cent. (denoting a comic playwright): from French comédien, from Old French comedie, via Latin from Greek kōmōidia, from kōmōidos ‘comic poet’, from kōmos ‘revel’ aoidos ‘singer’. The sense ‘entertainer’ dates from the late 19th cent.

Example Bank:
•He started out as a stand-up comedian in Liverpool.
•Peter was in his thirties when he decided to be a stand-up comedian.