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Synonyms for mime

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : mahym, meem
Phonetic Transcription : maɪm, mim

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Définition of mime

Origin :
  • c.1600, "a buffoon who practices gesticulations" [Johnson], from French mime (16c.) and directly from Latin mimus, from Greek mimos "imitator, mimic, actor, mime, buffoon," of unknown origin. In reference to a performance, 1640s in a classical context; 1932 as "a pantomime."
  • noun an imitator
  • noun an imitation
  • verb mimic
  • verb impersonate
Example sentences :
  • Was it at all surprising that he should have made so rapid and signal a success as a mime?
  • Extract from : « Scaramouche » by Rafael Sabatini
  • "Only leave me to myself," the Mime sobbed, moving his sore body.
  • Extract from : « Operas Every Child Should Know » by Mary Schell Hoke Bacon
  • He looked long and curiously at the Mime and could read his heart.
  • Extract from : « Operas Every Child Should Know » by Mary Schell Hoke Bacon
  • So the Mime fell to planning how he could get the gold into his own hands.
  • Extract from : « Operas Every Child Should Know » by Mary Schell Hoke Bacon
  • Siegfried must do this and the Mime should profit by it, and afterward kill Siegfried.
  • Extract from : « Operas Every Child Should Know » by Mary Schell Hoke Bacon
  • "Now we have arrived where the Dragon lives," the Mime said to Siegfried.
  • Extract from : « Operas Every Child Should Know » by Mary Schell Hoke Bacon
  • Thus the Mime was slain, as Wotan had said, by one who knew no fear.
  • Extract from : « Operas Every Child Should Know » by Mary Schell Hoke Bacon
  • A Mime was a sort of farce, travestying real persons or events.
  • Extract from : « English Narrative Poems » by Various
  • They disperse in headlong flight, with Mime, into the cavernous recesses.
  • Extract from : « The Complete Opera Book » by Gustav Kobb
  • The Vorspiel of "Siegfried" is expressive of Mime's planning and plotting.
  • Extract from : « The Complete Opera Book » by Gustav Kobb

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