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Definition of Pantomime
1. Verb. Act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only. "The acting students mimed eating an apple"
Generic synonyms: Act, Play, Playact, Roleplay
Derivative terms: Mime, Mimer, Pantomimer, Pantomimist
2. Noun. A performance using gestures and body movements without words.
Generic synonyms: Acting, Performing, Playacting, Playing
Specialized synonyms: Panto
Derivative terms: Mime, Mimic, Pantomimist
Definition of Pantomime
1. n. A universal mimic; an actor who assumes many parts; also, any actor.
2. a. Representing only in mute actions; pantomimic; as, a pantomime dance.
Definition of Pantomime
1. Noun. (rare) A Classical comic actor, especially one who works mainly through gesture and mime. (defdate from 17th c.) ¹
2. Noun. (historical) The drama in ancient Greece and Rome featuring such performers; or (later) any of various kinds of performance modelled on such work. (defdate from 17th c.) ¹
3. Noun. (U.K.) A traditional theatrical entertainment, originally based on the commedia dell'arte, but later aimed mostly at children and involving physical comedy, topical jokes, and fairy-tale plots. (defdate from 18th c.) ¹
4. Noun. Gesturing without speaking; dumb-show, mime. (defdate from 18th c.) ¹
5. Noun. ¹
6. Verb. (transitive) To gesture without speaking. ¹
7. Verb. (transitive) To entertain others by silent gestures or actions. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pantomime
1. [v -MIMED, -MIMING, -MIMES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pantomime
Literary usage of Pantomime
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the Drama: A Guide to the Plays, Play-wrights, Players, and by William Davenport Adams (1904)
"(3) Л pantomime at Covent Garden, 186S-7. (4) A pantomime by FW GREEN. ...
(9) A pantomime by OSCAR BARRETT and WB OSMAN, Crystal Palace Theatre, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"There seems no need to pursue further the history of English pantomime in detail.
" Things of this nature are above criticism," as Mr Machine, ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1897)
"pantomime, said Lucian, is the finest of the arts; and even if you reject the
assertion for ... For pantomime is not perplexed with platitude and garrulity. ..."
4. Miscellanies by William Makepeace Thackeray (1877)
"Ш. THE composer of the Overture of the New Grand Christmas pantomime, Harlequin
and the Fairy of the Spangled Pocket-handkerchief, or the Prince of the ..."
5. The Bookman (1915)
"something comic in the pantomime of the puppets, "whose every motion is effected
... In mere pantomime it is probable that the puppets would labour under a ..."
6. The Story of Santa Klaus: Told for Children of All Ages from Six to Sixty by William Shepard Walsh (1909)
"The word pantomime comes from two Greek words meaning "all mimicry. ...
England borrowed the pantomime from Italy, where it has survived from the the masked ..."
7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In another early pantomime (also in the Dyce Library) called ... There seems no
need to pursue further the history of English pantomime. ..."
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