clown

comic performer, often for children's entertainment
Intangible circus_profession Q7358
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clown

Summary

clown is a circus profession[1]. clown draws 5,910 Wikipedia views per month (circus_profession category, ranking #1 of 2).[2]

Key Facts

  • clown's field of work was circus[3].
  • clown's instance of is recorded as circus profession[4].
  • clown is a type of circus performer[5].
  • clown's Commons category is recorded as Clowns[6].
  • clown's field of this occupation is recorded as clownery[7].
  • clown's Unicode character is recorded as 🤡[8].
  • clown's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Clowns[9].
  • clown's Commons gallery is recorded as Clowns[10].
  • clown's work location is recorded as circus[11].
  • clown's ISCO-88 occupation class is recorded as 3474[12].
  • clown's depicted by is recorded as Two clowns[13].
  • clown's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[14].
  • clown's described by source is recorded as Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[15].
  • clown's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • clown's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17].
  • clown's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[18].
  • clown's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[19].
  • clown's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[20].
  • clown's different from is recorded as Clown[21].
  • clown's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'sl', 'text': 'klovnesa'}[22].
  • clown's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'ru', 'text': 'клоунесса'}[23].
  • clown's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'ar', 'text': 'مهرجة'}[24].
  • clown's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'ca', 'text': 'pallassa'}[25].
  • clown's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'clown'}[26].
  • clown's female form of label is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'clowne'}[27].

Body

Definition and Type

clown's instance of is recorded as circus profession[4]. clown is a type of circus performer[5].

Influence

Things named for clown include Clowns Without Borders[28], a nonprofit organization[29], in Spain[30], founded in 1993[31].

Why It Matters

clown draws 5,910 Wikipedia views per month (circus_profession category, ranking #1 of 2).[2] clown has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] clown is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

Entities named for clown include Clowns Without Borders[28], a nonprofit organization[29], in Spain[30], founded in 1993[31].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
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  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Femme, j'écris ton nom.... wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . feminization dictionary. wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 13h ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Field of work circus
    On focus list of wikimedia project Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Subclass of circus performer
    Instance of circus profession
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 2581, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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