Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
comedian:
cartoon story:
Русский
By meaning 2
comedian:
cartoon story:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
comedian:
cartoon story:

Examples

284 sentences
  1. You really like comic books, don't you?

    Тобі дуже подобаються комікси, еге ж? — deniko

  2. Tom seems to enjoy reading comic books.

    Том, здається, отримує задоволення від читання коміксів. — deniko

  3. Tom owns a comic book store.

    Том є власником магазину коміксів. — deniko

    deTom besitzt einen Comicladen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Meaning

3 senses
  1. A comedian.

    She started out as a joke-writer on the radio, and first performed as a comic at the ages of 30.

    Komiker

    ко́микkómik, эксце́нтрикekscéntrik

    ко́мікkómik

  2. A story composed of drawn images arranged in a sequence, usually with textual captions; a comic book.

    Bildergeschichte, Comic, Strip

    ко́миксkómiks

    ко́міксkómiks, мальо́писmalʹópys

  3. (UK)A children's magazine.

More definitions
  • a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts

Origin

From Latin comicus, from Ancient Greek κωμικός (kōmikós, “relating to comedy”), from κῶμος

From Latin comicus, from Ancient Greek κωμικός (kōmikós, “relating to comedy”), from κῶμος (kômos, “carousal”).

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: comics
Singularcomic
Pluralcomics

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts:comedian

Word family

17 related words

Collocations

8 patterns
  • comic books
  • reading comic books
  • reading comic
  • a comic book
  • enjoy reading comic
  • like comic books
  • reading a comic
  • like comic

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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