What's The Definition Of Pantomime?
[n] a performance using gestures and body movements without words
[v] act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only; "The acting students mimed eating an apple"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Pantomime: dumb show |
mime |
mime
Related Terms | Find terms related to Pantomime: act |
act a part |
act as |
act as foil |
act out |
acting |
actor |
actress |
antagonist |
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ape |
aping |
appear |
audience success |
bad guy |
ballet |
barnstorm |
barnstormer |
bearing |
beck |
beckon |
body language |
bomb |
broadcast drama |
burlesque show |
carriage |
character |
character actor |
character man |
character woman |
characterization |
charade |
child actor |
chironomy |
cliff hanger |
closet drama |
come out |
comedy drama |
copy |
critical success |
dactylology |
daytime serial |
deaf-and-dumb alphabet |
dialogue |
diseur |
diseuse |
do |
documentary drama |
drama |
dramalogue |
dramatic play |
dramatic series |
dramatizer |
dumb show |
duodrama |
duologue |
embodiment |
emote |
emotionalize |
enact |
enacting |
enactment |
epic theater |
experimental theater |
extravaganza |
failure |
feeder |
flop |
foil |
gasser |
gesticulate |
gesticulation |
gesture |
gesture language |
get top billing |
giveaway |
Grand Guignol |
hand signal |
happening |
heavy |
histrio |
histrion |
hit |
hit show |
imitation |
impersonate |
impersonation |
improvisational drama |
incarnation |
ingenue |
juvenile |
kinesics |
legitimate drama |
masque |
masquerade |
masquerade as |
matinee idol |
melodrama |
mime |
mimer |
mimesis |
mimic |
mimicking |
mimicry |
miming |
minstrel show |
miracle |
miracle play |
monodrama |
monologist |
monologue |
morality |
morality play |
motion |
motion to |
movement |
mummer |
music drama |
musical revue |
mystery |
mystery play |
opera |
pageant |
panel show |
pantomiming |
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pass for |
Passion play |
pastoral |
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patter |
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performance |
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personate |
personation |
personification |
piece |
play |
play a part |
play the lead |
playact |
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player |
playing |
playlet |
poise |
portrayal |
pose |
pose as |
posing |
posture |
pretend to be |
problem play |
protean actor |
psychodrama |
quiz show |
radio drama |
reciter |
register |
review |
revue |
Roscius |
saw the air |
sensational play |
serial |
show |
shrug |
shrug the shoulders |
sign language |
sitcom |
situation comedy |
sketch |
skit |
soap |
soap opera |
sociodrama |
soubrette |
spectacle |
stage performer |
stage play |
stage player |
stage show |
stance |
star |
steal the show |
stooge |
straight drama |
straight man |
stroller |
strolling player |
success |
suspense drama |
tableau |
tableau vivant |
take off |
talk show |
teleplay |
television drama |
television play |
theater of cruelty |
theatrical |
thespian |
Tom show |
total theater |
tread the boards |
troupe |
trouper |
upstage |
utility man |
variety show |
vaudeville |
vaudeville show |
vehicle |
villain |
wave the arms |
word-of-mouth success |
work
See Also | act |
acting |
panto |
performing |
play |
playact |
playacting |
playing |
roleplay
Pantomime In Webster's Dictionary
\Pan"to*mime\, n. [F., fr. L. pantomimus, Gr. ?, lit.,
all-imitating; ?, ?, all + ? to imitate: cf. It. pantomimo.
See {Mimic}.]
1. A universal mimic; an actor who assumes many parts; also,
any actor. [Obs.]
2. One who acts his part by gesticulation or dumb show only,
without speaking; a pantomimist.
[He] saw a pantomime perform so well that he could
follow the performance from the action alone.
--Tylor.
3. A dramatic representation by actors who use only dumb
show; hence, dumb show, generally.
4. A dramatic and spectacular entertainment of which dumb
acting as well as burlesque dialogue, music, and dancing
by Clown, Harlequin, etc., are features.
\Pan"to*mime\, a.
Representing only in mute actions; pantomimic; as, a
pantomime dance.
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