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noun

Mime n.

A kind of drama in which real persons and events were generally represented in a ridiculous manner; an ancient Greek or Roman form of farce.

An actor in such representations.

The art of representing actions, events, situations, or stories solely by gestures and body movements, without speaking; pantomime (3).

An actor who performs or specializes in mime (3); an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression; a pantomime (2); a pantomimist; a mimer.

Synonyms: mummer, pantomimer, pantomimist.

A mimic.

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Etymology of 'Mime'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mime" Quotes from Famous Books

... signal-sound of strife, This month the marshalling to arms. Away! Party's magnificently sham array The muster of Mode's mob will soon have rent. Play on, O Phantom, ominously play! Death as the Foe! They fly before thee, blent, Maid, Matron, Masher, Mime, in general discontent! ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 102, June 18, 1892 • Various

... fancy as morbid as Poe's, I can tell what is meant by "Shebeens," I have breasted the river that flows Through the land of the wild Gadarenes; I can gossip with Burton on skenes, I can imitate Irving (the Mime), And my sketches are quainter than Keene's, But—I am not ...

— Rhymes a la Mode • Andrew Lang

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