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Definitions: Pantomime |
PantomimeNoun1. A performance using gestures and body movements without words. Verb1. Act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only; "The acting students mimed eating an apple". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pantomime" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
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Satire | PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of seeing pantomimes, denotes that your friends will deceive you. If you participate in them, you will have cause of offense. Affairs will not prove satisfactory. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Pantomime (3 syl.), according to etymology, should be all dumb show, but in modern practice it is partly dumb show and partly grotesque speaking. Harlequin and Columbine never speak, but Clown and Pantaloon keep up a constant fire of fun. Dr. Clarke says that Harlequin is the god Mercury, with his short sword called "herpe;" he is supposed to be invisible, and to be able to transport himself to the ends of the earth as quick as thought. Columbine, he says, is Psyche (the soul); the old man is Charon; and the Clown Momus (the buffoon of heaven), whose large gaping mouth is an imitation of the ancient masks. (Travels, iv. 459.) The best Roman pantomimists were Bathylus (a freedman of Maecenas), Pylades, and Hylas. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In the UK, pantomime (or panto) has come to mean a non-silent form of theatre, incorporating song, dance, buffoonery, and satire, traditionally performed at Christmas, with audiences consisting mainly of children. Pantomimes tend to be loosely based on traditional children's stories, and there is only a small number of basic themes and titles, the most popular being:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pantomime."
Synonyms: PantomimeSynonyms: dumb show (n), mime (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Indication | Gesture, gesticulation; pantomime; wink, glance, leer; nod, shrug, beck; touch, nudge; dactylology, dactylonomy; freemasonry, telegraphy, chirology, byplay, dumb show; cue; hint; clue, clew, key, scent. |
Language | Confusion of tongues, Babel, pasigraphie; pantomime; (signs); onomatopoeia; betacism, mimmation, myatism, nunnation; pasigraphy. |
The Drama | Play, drama, stage play, piece, five-act play, tragedy, comedy, opera, vaudeville, comedietta, lever de rideau, interlude, afterpiece, exode, farce, divertissement, extravaganza, burletta, harlequinade, pantomime, burlesque, opera bouffe, ballet, spectacle, masque, drame comedie drame; melodrama, melodrame; comidie larmoyante, sensation drama; tragicomedy, farcical-comedy; monodrame monologue;duologue trilogy; charade, proverbs; mystery, miracle play; musical, musical comedy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Pantomime |
| English words defined with "pantomime": Chironomy ♦ Dumb show ♦ panto, Pantomimical, Pierrot. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Pantomime" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (pantomime), French (mime show, pantomime, pantomimic), German (mime, pantomime). |
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Screenplays | Shut up! We can't hear the pantomime! (Enfants du paradis, Les; writing credit: Jacques Prévert) | |
Lyrics | Why can't we pantomime, just close our eyes ("The Great Beyond"; performing artist: R.E.M.) Lost in this pantomime ("Too Great Thy Gift"; performing artist: The Heights) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Pantomime Quiz (1947) The Pantomime Dame (1982) | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson | Who can guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes? |
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| "Pantomime" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.43% of the time. "Pantomime" is used about 351 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.43% | 349 | 15,301 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.28% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.28% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 351 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "pantomime": pantomime-like. | |
Ending with "pantomime": ballet-pantomime, opera-pantomime. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pantomime | 92 |
pantomime script | 10 |
history pantomime | 6 |
costume pantomime | 4 |
girl pantomime | 3 |
christian pantomime | 3 |
english pantomime | 3 |
horse pantomime | 3 |
hire pantomime | 3 |
costume horse pantomime | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "pantomime"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pantomimë (harlequinade, mime), shpjegohem me anë gjestesh, shfaqje për fëmijë, gjuhë gjestesh. (various references) | |
Arabic | فن التمثيل الإيمائي, ممثل في مسرحية إيمائية, ممثل صامت, مسرحية إيمائية, إيمائية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | феерия (transformation scene), мим (mime), пантомима, играя в пантомима (mime), изразявам с жест и мимика. (various references) | |
Czech | pantomima (dumb show, harlequinade, mime), nìmohra. (various references) | |
Danish | pantomimiker. (various references) | |
Dutch | pantomime spelen. (various references) | |
Esperanto | pantomimo, pantomimi. (various references) | |
Farsi | نمایش صامت مخصوصاباماسک , تقلیددراوردن (Mime, Monkey). (various references) | |
Finnish | elenäytelmä (dumb show). (various references) | |
French | pantomime (pantomimic). (various references) | |
German | Pantomime (mime). (various references) | |
Greek | παντομίμα (harlequinade, mime). (various references) | |
Hungarian | pantomim (mime, panto). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pantomim. (various references) | |
Italian | pantomimo, pantomima (Mummery). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 黙劇 , 黙り (refusing explanation, silence, taciturnity, without giving notice), 無言劇 , パンジー色 (briefs, brochure, deep violet, most people, paint, pampas, pamphlet, panda, pan-focus, pantalon, pantheon, panties, pantograph, pantothenic, pantry, pantskirt, panty, panty girdle, panty hose, panty skirt, panty stocking, pantyhose, PCS, pumping, pumpkin, pumps, punch, punch card, punch permanent, punch-card system, punt kick, showing underwear, underpants, whore), 伽芝居 (fairy play). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | パントマイ , む""'き, もく'き (witness), とぎしばい (fairy play), "まり (refusing explanation, silence, taciturnity, without giving notice). (various references) | |
Manx | panto, gienserey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | antomimepay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pantomima. (various references) | |
Romanian | pantomimã (by-play, dumb show, Mummery), spectacol pentru copii, mimicã, mima (imitate, mime, mimic), gesturi, exprima prin mimicã (register), exprima prin gesturi (gesture, register). (various references) | |
Russian | мимический актер (mimic), представление для детей, пантомима (dumb show, mime). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prikazati pantomimom, pantomima (mummery). (various references) | |
Spanish | pantomima (break bone fever, broken wing, calentura roja, dengue, Mummery, panto, saddle back fever, three-day sickness). (various references) | |
Swedish | pantomim (dumb show, mime). (various references) | |
Turkish | pandomim oynamak, pandomim (dumb show, harlequinade), sessiz tiyatro (mime). (various references) | |
Ukranian | мова жестів, п'"са-казка, пантоміма (panto). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | kịch câm. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | pantomimos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | pantomimus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pantomime": pantomimed, pantomimes. (additional references) | |
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"Pantomime" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pandomime, pantamime, pantomie, pantomine, phantomime, pontamine. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-m-m-n-o-p-t" | |
-1 letter: ammonite, ptomaine. | |
-2 letters: amniote, maintop, momenta, pimento, ptomain, tampion, timpano. | |
-3 letters: ammine, ammino, anomie, etamin, immane, impone, inmate, manito, moment, omenta, opiate, optima, optime, pantie, patine, pineta, pitman, pitmen, pointe, pommie, potman, potmen, tamein, tammie, tampon, teopan. | |
-4 letters: ament, amine, amino, amnio, anime, atone, entia, inapt, inept, mamie, matin, meant, menta, mimeo, minae, monie, monte, netop, oaten, opine, paeon, paint, panto, paten, patin, patio, piano, pieta, pinot, pinta, pinto, piton, point, tempi, tempo, tenia, tinea, toman. | |
-5 letters: aeon, amen, amie, amin, ammo, ante, anti, atom, atop, emit, etna, imam, into, iota, item, maim, main, mane, mano, mate, mean, meat, memo, meno, meta, mien, mime, mina, mine, mint, mite, moan, moat, mome, momi, mope, mote, name, naoi, nape, neap, neat, nema, nipa, nite, noma, nome, nope, nota, note, omen, omit, open, pain, pane, pant, pate, pean, peat, pein, pent, peon, pian, pima, pina, pine, pint, pion, pita, poem, poet, pome, pone, tain, tame, tamp, tape, team, temp, tepa, time, tine, toea, tome, tone, tope, topi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-m-m-n-o-p-t" | |
+1 letter: pantomimed, pantomimes. | |
+4 letters: accompaniment, complimentary, immunotherapy. | |
+5 letters: accompaniments, accomplishment, compartmenting, implementation, metamorphosing, paleomagnetism, spermatogonium. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 6E 74 6F 6D 69 6D 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- -. - --- -- .. -- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01101110 01110100 01101111 01101101 01101001 01101101 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a n t o m i m e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 006E 0074 006F 006D 0069 006D 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)506780868179757971 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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