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pantomime
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a performance using gestures and body movements without words [syn: mime , dumb show ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "mime actor," from Latin pantomimus "mime, dancer," from Greek pantomimos "actor," literally "imitator of all," from panto- (genitive of pan ) "all" (see pan- ) + mimos "imitator" (see mime (n.)).\n \nMeaning "drama or play without words" first recorded ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Pantomime (informally panto ) is a type of musical comedy stage production, designed for family entertainment. It was developed in England and is still performed there, generally during the Christmas and New Year season and, to a lesser extent, in other ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pantomime \Pan"to*mime\, a. Representing only in mute actions; pantomimic; as, a pantomime dance.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He had an infectious sense of humour, and recently scripted an amusing and satirical pantomime . ▪ How appropriate that her latest stage role should be in pantomime . ▪ Mind you, I feared the worst for this year's crop of pantomimes. ...
Usage examples of pantomime.
Nurse Banks went to the side table, took up the ampoule of camphor, went through the pantomime of filling a syringe and returned to the patient.
I was also glad to see a Venetian of my acquaintance who played the pantaloon in the pantomime, three tolerably pretty actresses, a pulcinella, and a scaramouch.
If nothing distinct and external is considered necessary, but the substrate itself can become everything and adopt every character, like the versatile dancer in the pantomime, it ceases to be a substrate: it is, essentially, everything.
There was a crashing through the trees and bushes away to the right, but then a mottled, startled Friesian burst out near them like a pantomime cow, head up, legs comically uncertain.
To any strangers she was invariably described, with expressive signs and gestures, as the one who had been chained, Baneelon making a great pantomime of it, groaning, rolling his eyes, and pointing to Pinchgut Island, which instantly won her the sympathy of the newcomers.
After a few more interchanges and some seriocomic pantomime on the part of Keikano who now stood a pace behind his minister, Crispin Reventlo dirust out his hand.
With gesture and pantomime she was helping to bind padding onto the butts of singlesticks, for the practice bouts.
Widow Twankey has come back to earth to restore the pantomime to its original condition.
I was also glad to see a Venetian of my acquaintance who played the pantaloon in the pantomime, three tolerably pretty actresses, a pulcinella, and a scaramouch.
She had started to open it for herself, but pantomimed joyful surprise at his gesture and let him finish it.
She went through another series of pantomimes, some of which were so energetic and comical that he had to smile.
I shook my head at the waiter and made a few other facial pantomimes to let him know that I was picking up the whole tab.
Where it snapped off a red dancer cringed, cowering, pantomiming fear.
She had not been taken in by the little pantomime he had put on with the Triads and guessed that they were friends of his.
You may imagine what difficulty we had in understanding one another, but we guessed somehow the meaning expressed by our pantomime, and I accepted the adventure with delight.