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31 short excerpts of Wiktionnary (A collaborative project to produce a free-content dictionary.)

— English words —

• clown n. A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and usually characterized by bright, oversized…
• clown n. A person who acts in a silly fashion.
• clown n. A stupid or badly-behaved person.
• clown n. (Obsolete) A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor.
• clown n. (Obsolete) One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl; a yokel.
• clown n. A clownfish.
• clown v. (Intransitive) To act in a silly or playful fashion.
• clown v. (Transitive, AAVE) To ridicule.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Polish
  • clown n. (Comedy) Alternative spelling of klaun.
• Romanian
  • clown n. Obsolete form of clovn.
• Swedish - Welsh
  • clown n. Clown.
• Welsh
  • clown v. First-person plural present/future of cloi.
  • clown v. First-person singular imperfect/conditional of cloi.
  • clown v. (Literary) first-person plural imperative of cloi.

— English word, defined in Dutch —

• clown n. Clown.

— English words, defined in French —

• clown n. (Cirque) Clown.
• clown n. (Sens figuré) (Familier) Farceur, blagueur, plaisantin, bouffon.
• clown v. Faire le clown, faire le pitre.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• clown s. Payaso.
• clown v. Payasear, hacer payasadas.

— English word, defined in Portuguese —

• clown s. Palhaço.

— English word, defined in Italian —

• clown s. Pagliaccio.

— In German —

• Clown S. Person, die vor Publikum (vor allem im Zirkus) in auffälligen…
• Clown S. Übertragen: alberner, nicht ernst zu nehmender Mensch.

— In Dutch —

• clown n. (Beroep) een komische wit geschminkte artiest, oorspronkelijk…
• clown n. (Figuurlijk) bespottelijk, belachelijk iemand.

— In French —

• clown n.m. (Cirque) Acteur qui, dans les cirques, fait des exercices…
• clown n.m. (Par analogie) Quelqu’un qui n’est pas sérieux, un trublion.
• clown n.m. Poisson-clown.

— In Portuguese —

• clown s. (Estrangeirismo) ver palhaço.

— In Italian —

• clown s. (Forestierismo) pagliaccio circense.

62 English words from 14 English definitions

AAVE act acts Alternative and artist associated awkward badly behaved boor bright characterized churl circus Clown clownfish coarse Comedy conditional fashion fellow first first␣person first-person␣plural First-person␣singular form future illbred imperative imperfect Intransitive Literary man manners nature Obsolete often One oversized performance performance␣artist person playful plural present ridicule rustic silly singular slapstick soil spelling stupid the Transitive upon usually who with works yokel

24 English words from 17 foreign definitions

artiest blagueur Cirque cirques clown dans des die een est exercices faire fait Farceur les Mensch Par pas Person Poisson Sens ver vor wit

44 foreign words from 17 foreign definitions

Acteur alberner allem analogie auffälligen belachelijk Beroep bespottelijk bouffon circense dans␣les ernst ernst␣zu␣nehmender Estrangeirismo Faire␣le␣clown faire␣le␣pitre Familier figuré Figuurlijk Forestierismo geschminkte hacer iemand komische nehmender nicht oorspronkelijk pagliaccio palhaço payasadas Payasear Payaso pitre plaisantin Poisson-clown Publikum Quelqu’un qui Sens␣figuré sérieux trublion Übertragen vor␣allem Zirkus

60 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

Clowne clowns clowny clowned Clowney clownly clown␣on clownage clown␣car clowncel clowndom clownery clowness Clowneys clownier clownies clowning clownish clowns␣on clown␣cars clowncels clowned␣on clownfish clown␣fish clownheal clowniest clownings clownless clownlike clown␣nose clownship clown␣shoe clownstep clown␣about clowneries clowningly clowning␣on clownishly clownology clown␣shoes clown␣world clown␣around clown␣beetle clown␣doctor clownfishes clowns␣about clown␣worlds clown␣beetles clown␣doctors clowned␣about +10 words

15 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

beclowns assclowns ass␣clowns beclowned zioclowns zioClowns Zioclowns ZioClowns arseclowns beclowning unclownish assclownery class␣clowns tomato␣clownfish tomato␣clownfishes

9 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

beclown assclown ass␣clown zioclown zioClown Zioclown ZioClown arseclown class␣clown

11 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

Clo CLO Clow low Low LOW 'low low% lown Lown own

3 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

NWO OLC WoL

7 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

Clowne clowns clowny Colwin con␣law encowl uncowl

7 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

Clon Clow Coln cowl low␣C lown Lown

9 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

blown clowd Clows coown co-own crown Crown flown slown

4 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

Clon Clow lown Lown

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