Get to know Humorist better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like entertainer.
Humorist meaning
- Someone who believes that health and temperament are determined by bodily humours; a humoralist.
- Someone subject to whims or fancies; an eccentric.
- A humorous or witty person, especially someone skilled in humorous writing or performance.
Synonyms of Humorist
Using Humorist
- The main meaning on this page is: Someone who believes that health and temperament are determined by bodily humours; a humoralist. | Someone subject to whims or fancies; an eccentric. | A humorous or witty person, especially someone skilled in humorous writing or performance.
- Useful related words include: humourist, entertainer.
- In the example corpus, humorist often appears in combinations such as: american humorist, humorist and, as humorist.
Context around Humorist
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 4 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Humorist
- In this selection, "humorist" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, american, writer, french, grady, pedro and storyteller stand out and add context to how "humorist" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as a humorist and arrested the humorist pedro muñoz. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "humorist" sits close to words such as aar, abdulla and abimbola, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with humorist
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Catherine Sevenau is a local writer, humorist, and storyteller. (9 words)
The house is the boyhood home of humorist James Thurber. (10 words)
Humorist Irving S. Cobb, who presented the award, is at right. (11 words)
Critic and humorist Louis Leroy wrote a scathing review in the newspaper Le Charivari in which, making wordplay with the title of Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), he gave the artists the name by which they became known. (41 words)
In spite of his tendency towards high art, Tenniel was already known and appreciated as a humorist and his early companionship with Charles Keene fostered and developed his talent for scholarly caricature. (32 words)
In the statement, Keillor again denied accusations of impropriety brought by a former female employee, which prompted MPR to sever ties with the radio host and humorist in November. (29 words)
Example sentences (20)
James Thurber, the great American humorist, had an original take on Macbeth: he treated it as a mystery to be solved.
Catherine Sevenau is a local writer, humorist, and storyteller.
In Spain, 1936, the communists arrested the humorist Pedro Muñoz-Seca for being a monarchist, a Catholic, and a right-winger.
She was crazy about making people laugh that she even quit her secretarial job to try and make it as a humorist.
The late American humorist Will Rogers once said that he was not a member of any organized political party.
Also from Taschen is the gorgeous if somewhat niche-appeal The Definitive Jacques Tati, five boxed volumes produced through unprecedented access to the French humorist’s archive.
Hollywood humorist Grady Miller grew up in the heart of Steinbeck Country on the Central California coast.
Humorist, storyteller, novelist, poet, and songwriter Theo Czuk will explore the crafts of writing, from poetry to the novel, and the many connections between them.
Humorist Grady Miller is the author of the comic story collection “Late Bloomer: Tales from Darkest Hollywood” (available on Amazon).
Humorist Irving S. Cobb, who presented the award, is at right.
In the statement, Keillor again denied accusations of impropriety brought by a former female employee, which prompted MPR to sever ties with the radio host and humorist in November.
The house is the boyhood home of humorist James Thurber.
The humorist and Pulitzer-winner parted ways with his three-bedroom, four-bathroom Victorian rowhouse in September.
The play started life as a hilarious essay from North Carolina’s own humorist David Sedaris.
Critic and humorist Louis Leroy wrote a scathing review in the newspaper Le Charivari in which, making wordplay with the title of Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), he gave the artists the name by which they became known.
Falwell was an enemy of the revenge humorist " George Hayduke ", who called Falwell a "fund-grubbing electronic Bible-banger" and "pious pride-in-the-pulpit".
Humorist Dave Barry has fun with Pournelle's guru column in Byte magazine in Dave Barry in Cyberspace.
In November 1995, Moore teamed up with friend and humorist Martin Lewis in organising a two-day salute to Cook in Los Angeles that Moore co-hosted with Lewis.
In spite of his tendency towards high art, Tenniel was already known and appreciated as a humorist and his early companionship with Charles Keene fostered and developed his talent for scholarly caricature.
Literary accomplishments Pu La Deshpande was most well known for his writings as a humorist.
Common combinations with humorist
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: