Definitions for clowns

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Spelling: [kloun]

IPA: /klaʊn/

Clowns is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in clowns (clnosw).

Definitions for clowns

noun

1. a comic performer, as in a circus, theatrical production, or the like, who wears an outlandish costume and makeup and entertains by pantomiming common situations or actions in exaggerated or ridiculous fashion, by juggling or tumbling, etc.
2. a person who acts like a clown; comedian; joker; buffoon; jester.
3. a prankster; a practical joker.
4. Slang. a coarse, ill-bred person; a boor.
5. a peasant; rustic.

verb (used without object)

1. to act like a clown.

Origin of clowns

1555-65; earlier cloyne, clowne, perhaps akin to Old Norse klunni boor, Danish dialect klunds, Swedish dialect klunn log

Examples for clowns

The subtext of the clown is that life is a joke and can be snatched away at any moment.

They will think I am a clown out for a holiday, but I can't help that.

So many families come that Vargas has arranged for a clown to entertain the kids.

An 18-year-old man dressed as a clown mugged a pedestrian, striking him 30 times in the back and neck with an iron bar.

There is something about a clown that stays with people: the bright colors, their tendency to be demonstrative.

A clown seized Philemon's hand, and hurried him into the ring.

Here is a vain person, and Malvolio is imprisoned and twitted by a clown.

There have more recent reports of Wasco clown inspired sightings from as far away as Fishers, Indiana.

Kemp, the clown of his company, knew her, and dedicated a book to her rather familiarly.

On the front seat is a peasant, laughing at the antics of the clown.