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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.

verb

Mime v. i. To mimic. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Mime'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mime" Quotes from Famous Books

... of Siegmund and Sieglinda and the punishment of Brunnhilda, is the first of the subsidiary dramas; the second, the finding of Brunnhilda by Siegfried, must now be considered. We hear the clinking of Mime's hammer, and the curtain rises on his home in a cave. All is dark within save for the smouldering smithy fire; but facing it is the hole in the rock which is the entrance, and through it we see the green summer forest. Mime is a malignant dwarf, in whose care Sieglinda, dying ...

— Wagner • John F. Runciman