PANTOMIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pantomime mean? 

• PANTOMIME (noun)
  The noun PANTOMIME has 1 sense:

1. a performance using gestures and body movements without words

  Familiarity information: PANTOMIME used as a noun is very rare.

• PANTOMIME (verb)
  The verb PANTOMIME has 1 sense:

1. act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only

  Familiarity information: PANTOMIME used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PANTOMIME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A performance using gestures and body movements without words

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

dumb show; mime; pantomime

Hypernyms ("pantomime" is a kind of...):

acting; performing; playacting; playing (the performance of a part or role in a drama)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pantomime"):

panto (an abbreviation of pantomime)

Derivation:

pantomime (act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only)

pantomimist (an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression)

• PANTOMIME (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they pantomime    ... he / she / it pantomimes   
Past simple: pantomimed   
Past participle: pantomimed   
-ing form: pantomiming   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

mime; pantomime

Context example:

The acting students mimed eating an apple

Hypernyms (to "pantomime" is one way to...):

act; play; playact; roleplay (perform on a stage or theater)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

pantomime (a performance using gestures and body movements without words)

pantomimer; pantomimist (an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression)

 Context examples 

A ceremony followed, in dumb show, in which it was easy to recognise the pantomime of a marriage.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)