Comedian vs Hypernyms - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between comedian and hypernyms

is that comedian is an entertainer who performs in a humorous manner, especially by telling jokes while hypernyms is .

(wikipedia comedian)

(en noun) (feminine: comedienne )

An entertainer who performs in a humorous manner, especially by telling jokes.

(by extension) Any person who is characteristically humorous or amusing.

A writer of comedy.

(Milton)

* (entertainer) comic * (writer) humorist / humourist

* (male comedian) comedian (male and female)

* comedian (male), comedienne (female)

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