HUMOURIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does humourist mean? 

• HUMOURIST (noun)
  The noun HUMOURIST has 1 sense:

1. someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way

  Familiarity information: HUMOURIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUMOURIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

humorist; humourist

Hypernyms ("humourist" is a kind of...):

entertainer (a person who tries to please or amuse)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "humourist"):

lampooner; parodist (mimics literary or musical style for comic effect)

punster (someone overly fond of making puns)

ironist; ridiculer; satirist (a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm)

card; wag; wit (a witty amusing person who makes jokes)

Instance hyponyms:

Benchley; Robert Benchley; Robert Charles Benchley (United States humorist (1889-1945))

Clemens; Mark Twain; Samuel Langhorne Clemens (United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910))

Lardner; Ring Lardner; Ringgold Wilmer Lardner (United States humorist and writer of satirical short stories (1885-1933))

Leacock; Stephen Butler Leacock; Stephen Leacock (Canadian economist best remembered for his humorous writings (1869-1944))

Edward Lear; Lear (British artist and writer of nonsense verse (1812-1888))

Don Marquis; Donald Robert Perry Marquis; Marquis (humorist who wrote about the imaginary life of cockroaches (1878-1937))

Rogers; Will Rogers; William Penn Adair Rogers (United States humorist remembered for his homespun commentary on politics and American society (1879-1935))

Henry Wheeler Shaw; Josh Billings; Shaw (United States humorist who wrote about rural life (1818-1885))

James Grover Thurber; James Thurber; Thurber (United States humorist and cartoonist who published collections of essays and stories (1894-1961))

Derivation:

humour (the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous)

humour (the quality of being funny)

humour (a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter)

 Context examples 

You are a humourist, and may say what you like.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

As I tell Mr. E., you are a thorough humourist.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Quite a humourist.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)