Clown | Mean of clown in English Dictionary

/ˈklaʊn/

• Noun
• someone who performs in a circus, who wears funny clothes and makeup, and who tries to make people laugh
1. a circus clown
2. Those big shoes make you look like a clown!
3. a rodeo clown [=a person in a rodeo who dresses like a circus clown]
4. She came dressed in a clown suit/costume.
5. a big red clown nose
• someone who often does funny things to make people laugh
1. His classmates remember him as the class clown. [=a student who tried to make other students laugh]
2. He was always playing the clown. [=trying to make people laugh]
• a rude or stupid person
1. Who's the clown standing in the middle of the road?
2. those clowns at the state capital
• Verb

• to act like a clown
1. Stop clowning around. We've got work to do.