From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishtragediantra‧ge‧di‧an /trəˈdʒiːdiən/ noun [countable] formalAPTAL an actor or writer of tragedy → comedian
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tragedian• He kept referring to Wehman as a tragedian.• Mones held himself as stiffly as a nineteenth-century tragedian, and filled his lines with sentiment.• I knew what Aristophanes had said, what Agathon, the tragedian, had said, what Alcibiades had said.• After Homer, the tragedians of fifth-century Athens reveal a dualist universe in which Zeus is transcendent and man introspective.• If there were tragedy clubs at which people came to watch stand-up tragedians, Mr Brown would be a star. 