Mime Definition

mīm
mimed, mimes, miming
noun
mimes
An ancient Greek or Roman farce, in which people and events were mimicked and burlesqued.
Webster's New World
A performance of or dialogue for such an entertainment.
American Heritage
An actor, often, specif., a street performer, who performs in mime.
Webster's New World
Representation of an action, character, mood, etc. by means of gestures and actions rather than words.
Webster's New World
A modern performer who specializes in comic mimicry.
American Heritage
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verb
mimed, mimes, miming
To ridicule by imitation; mimic.
American Heritage
To act as a mime; play a part with gestures and actions, but without words.
Webster's New World
To imitate, mimic, or act out as a mime.
Webster's New World
To portray characters and situations by gesture and body movement.
American Heritage
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pronoun

(networking) Acronym of Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, an Internet standard that extends the formatting and content capabilities of email.

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Other Word Forms of Mime

Noun

Singular:
mime
Plural:
mimes

Origin of Mime

  • Via Latin mimus, from Ancient Greek μῖμος (mimos, “imitator, actor").

    From Wiktionary

  • M(ultipurpose) I(nternet) M(ail) E(xtensions)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin mīmus from Greek mīmos

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Mime Sentence Examples

  • Mime Necker, despite her talents, her beauty and her fondness for philosophe society, was strictly decorous, somewhat reserved, and disposed to carry out in her daughter's case the rigorous discipline of her own childhood.

  • The Platonic dialogue, however, was founded on the mime, which had been cultivated half a century earlier by the Sicilian poets, Sophron and Epicharmus.

  • A ruder kind of drama, the amoebaean verse, or bucolic mime, developed into the only pure stream of genial poetry found in the Alexandrian School, the Idylls of Theocritus.

  • The second part of the story concerns VOlundr, lord of the elves, the cunning smith, who, after learning his art from Mime, then from the dwarfs, came to the court of King NIN19r, and there defeated in fight the smith Amilias.

  • Explore the original story using mime, music, symbolic movement.

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