Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A writer of tragedies.
- noun One who performs tragic roles in the theater.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A writer of tragedies.
- noun An actor of tragedy; by extension, an actor or player in general.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A writer of tragedy.
- noun An actor or player in tragedy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
actor whospecializes intragic roles . - noun A
playwright who writestragedies .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an actor who specializes in tragic roles
- noun a writer (especially a playwright) who writes tragedies
Etymologies
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Examples
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A tragedian is a hard character only on the stage, but the comedian is the comedian always.
The Idiot John Kendrick Bangs 1892
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Our tragedian was a rough joker off the stage; our prime clown the most peevish mortal living.
Tales of a Traveller 1824
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Our tragedian was a rough joker off the stage; our prime clown the most peevish mortal living.
Tales of a Traveller Washington Irving 1821
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It is a discussion on the nature of love, taking the form of a group of speeches, both satirical and serious, given by a group of men at a symposium or a wine drinking gathering at the house of the tragedian Agathon at Athens.
Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009
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She gives us Sondheim the romantic ("Take the Moment"), Sondheim the trickster (his little known Gershwin homage "More"), Sondheim the tragedian ("Loving You") and Sondheim the showman ("Let Me Entertain You").
Dizzy's Welcomes an Old Friend Will Friedwald 2011
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Joni Mitchell: In a way, I think I entered straight into my tragedian period, as my work is set against the stupid, destructive way we live on this planet.
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"Fascinated with the meeting of memory and language, adept at conjuring states of mind, and haunted by the violence wracking his homeland, Hemon is a stoic tragedian and a brilliant satirist."
The Question of Bruno by Aleksandar Hemon: Book summary 2010
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It is a discussion on the nature of love, taking the form of a group of speeches, both satirical and serious, given by a group of men at a symposium or a wine drinking gathering at the house of the tragedian Agathon at Athens.
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009
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Dan Donohue, who plays the title role in the OSF production of "Hamlet" that I praised in this space last week, doubles as the snobbish headwaiter of "She Loves Me," and he turns out to be as good a comedian as he is a tragedian.
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The wreck and ruin of the Bush years was the powerful tragedian backdrop to Obama's impassioned shouts to remake America.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Gibbs Need Not Apologize for Blasting the "Professional Left" 2010
tragedianxarrest commented on the word tragedian
I love this word. Hence the user name.
November 18, 2007
yarb commented on the word tragedian
It is a pretty cool word.
November 18, 2007
colleen commented on the word tragedian
Does it not also refer to actors who perform said tragedies? The singers of goat songs, as it were?
November 18, 2007