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Definition of Humourist
1. Noun. Someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way.
Generic synonyms: Entertainer
Specialized synonyms: Lampooner, Parodist, Punster, Ironist, Ridiculer, Satirist, Card, Wag, Wit
Specialized synonyms: Benchley, Robert Benchley, Robert Charles Benchley, Clemens, Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Lardner, Ring Lardner, Ringgold Wilmer Lardner, Leacock, Stephen Butler Leacock, Stephen Leacock, Edward Lear, Lear, Don Marquis, Donald Robert Perry Marquis, Marquis, Rogers, Will Rogers, William Penn Adair Rogers, Henry Wheeler Shaw, Josh Billings, Shaw, James Grover Thurber, James Thurber, Thurber
Derivative terms: Humor, Humor, Humor, Humour, Humour, Humour
Definition of Humourist
1. Noun. (British) (alternative spelling of humorist) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Humourist
Literary usage of Humourist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1894)
"THE UNCONSCIOUS humourist. IT has been not unreasonably observed that seriousness
... Your humourist, some would say, with his sly insinuations and hidden ..."
2. Book Auction Records by Frank Karslake (1905)
"14 humourist (The), Ac, ... by G. Cruikshank, mor. ex., gt. and Cruikshank, 4
v., 1st Edn., mor., ge by Riviere, Robins, 1819-20 humourist (The), Ac., 4 v., ..."
3. Four English Humourists of the Nineteenth Century by William Samuel Lilly (1895)
"in Thackeray, The humourist as Philosopher; in George Eliot, The humourist as
Poet; in Carlyle, The humourist as Prophet. I must ask you to take these ..."
4. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1844)
"Some account of the popular tracts which composed the Library of Captain Cox, a
humourist, who took a part in the Hock Tuesday Play performed before Queen ..."
5. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1849)
"Some account of the popular tracts which composed the Library of Captain Cox, a
humourist, who took a part in the Hock Tuesday Play performed before Queen ..."
6. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers: Biographical and Critical by Michael Bryan (1886)
"After this, Cruikshank illustrated a periodical called 'The humourist.' In 1823-26
he illustrated with some capital etchings Grimm's ' German Popular ..."
7. The English Literary Periodical of Morals and Manners by John Griffith Ames (1904)
"In a note before mentioned it was stated that Thomas Gordon was the author of
the humourist. If both these statements are true, then the author of the ..."
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