vaudevillian
noun, adjective
vaudevillian is a noun meaning “Someone who performs in vaudeville” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-U-D-E-V-I-L-L-I-A-N and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 14 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vaudevillian is vaudevillians.
What does vaudevillian mean?
noun
- 1
USSomeone who performs in vaudeville.
adjective
- 1
Pertaining to vaudeville
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce vaudevillian?
Vaudevillian has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vaudevillian
- vaudevillians plural
- more vaudevillian comparative
- most vaudevillian superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vaudevillian?
Vaudevillian appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 113,022nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does vaudevillian come from?
From vaudeville + -ian.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).