English noun: humorist |
1. | humorist (person) someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way |
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| Synonyms | humourist |
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| Broader (hypernym) | entertainer |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | card, ironist, lampooner, parodist, punster, ridiculer, satirist, wag, wit |
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| Instance hyponym | Benchley, Clemens, Don Marquis, Donald Robert Perry Marquis, Edward Lear, Henry Wheeler Shaw, James Grover Thurber, James Thurber, Josh Billings, Lardner, Leacock, Lear, Mark Twain, Marquis, Ring Lardner, Ringgold Wilmer Lardner, Robert Benchley, Robert Charles Benchley, Rogers, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Shaw, Stephen Butler Leacock, Stephen Leacock, Thurber, Will Rogers, William Penn Adair Rogers |
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