pantomime
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Etymology[edit]
Circa 17th century, from Latin pantomīmus, from Ancient Greek παντόμιμος (pantómimos), from πᾶς (pâs, “each, all”) + μιμέομαι (miméomai, “I mimic”).
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pantomime (countable and uncountable, plural pantomimes)
- (now rare) A Classical comic actor, especially one who works mainly through gesture and mime. [from 17th c.]
- 1865, Edward Burnett Tylor, Researches into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization:
- [He] saw a pantomime perform so well that he could follow the performance from the action alone.
- (historical) The drama in ancient Greece and Rome featuring such performers; or (later) any of various kinds of performance modelled on such work. [from 17th c.]
- (UK) A traditional theatrical entertainment, originally based on the commedia dell'arte, but later aimed mostly at children and involving physical comedy, topical jokes, call and response, and fairy-tale plots. [from 18th c.]
- 2011 October 20, Michael da Silva, “Stoke 3 - 0 Macc Tel-Aviv”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- With the Stoke supporters jeering Ziv's every subsequent touch, the pantomime atmosphere created by the home crowd reached a crescendo when Ziv was shown a straight red shortly after the break in extraordinary circumstances.
- Gesturing without speaking; dumb-show, mime. [from 18th c.]
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 26”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- #*: A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds.
- 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 26:
- In pantomime, Chief Joyi would fling his spear and creep along the veld as he narrated the victories and defeats.
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traditional theatrical entertainment, mostly for children
gesturing without speaking
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Verb[edit]
pantomime (third-person singular simple present pantomimes, present participle pantomiming, simple past and past participle pantomimed)
- (transitive) To make (a gesture) without speaking.
- I pantomimed steering a car; he understood, and tossed the keys to me.
- (transitive) To entertain others by silent gestures or actions. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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pantomime f (plural pantomimes)
Further reading[edit]
- “pantomime”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian[edit]
Noun[edit]
pantomime f
Latin[edit]
Noun[edit]
pantomīme
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