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Definition of pantomime in English: pantomimenoun ˈpantəmʌɪmˈpæn(t)əˌmaɪm 1British A theatrical entertainment, mainly for children, which involves music, topical jokes, and slapstick comedy and is based on a fairy tale or nursery story, usually produced around Christmas. as modifier a pantomime villain mass noun he is currently appearing in pantomime in Manchester Example sentencesExamples - The society have been at the forefront of local theatrical drama for over two decades, staging some magnificent productions in serious drama, comedy, pantomime and more.
- Sleeping Beauty is a tale most people know mainly through pantomimes and the work of Walt Disney but at Stonar School pupils wanted to get back to basics and tell the original tale.
- He is one of life's nice guys - yet he always plays villains in pantomimes.
- He has also written children's plays, pantomimes, comedy sketches and radio commercials and has directed more than 100 productions, spanning everything from Shakespeare to stand-up comedy.
- In carnival, the Commedia dell'Arte, the pantomime, and slapstick we find a modern expression of the trickster impulse.
- Roll over Cinderella and tell Sleeping Beauty the news, York has a new and most unlikely pantomime in town.
- She was in a pantomime at Christmas and was dancing and singing, said Mr Riordan.
- This pantomime follows the story line closely, and yet manages to get the up to date flavour with some current pop chart songs, which go down very well with the younger members of the audience.
- With a London debut in 1891, he quickly established a successful career in music-hall, variety, pantomime, revue, operetta, and musical comedy.
- Meanwhile, fans of side-splitting comedy can also take in the Grand Opera House's Christmas pantomime, Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs.
- We started putting on entertainment shows at the Harvest Supper and pantomimes at Christmas.
- Shield composed more than 40 light operas, pantomimes, and ballad operas, as well as string quartets and trios, other instrumental pieces, and numerous songs.
- On stage he has played character roles in Ray Cooney farces, pantomime, Noel Coward comedies and serious drama.
- Last month, about 80 children, aged between eight and 11, auditioned for the Christmas pantomime, all hoping to tread the boards alongside the cast.
- Hart plays the genie in this raucous take on the British pantomime, a story based on the myth of Aladdin and his magic lamp.
- When Christmas came along these theatres presented spectacular pantomimes with massive stars, whether of the theatre, the films, or in later years, television.
- Headteacher Carole Whitehurst says it was quite an eye opener for a generation of children who are far more familiar with Disney's version of fables and fairytales than the pantomimes.
- Calne Players will be bringing all the fun and laughter of a pantomime to the town next week with their performance of Cinderella.
- They take up residence at the Pavilion Theatre for the annual pantomime of silly jokes and bad wigs in an all new, up-to-date production of Jack and the Beanstalk.
- To add to the magic of Christmas, pantomimes offer exciting and engaging family entertainment, and Glasgow offers a fun-filled selection.
2A dramatic entertainment, originating in Roman mime, in which performers express meaning through gestures accompanied by music. 哑剧 Example sentencesExamples - Her major example is ‘Circe,’ where gesture and pantomime are all-important.
- These kinds of inferential processes go on constantly in interaction, as we all know, on the basis of indexical signals that work like gestures in pantomime.
- There are no words in the film - everything is performed in a solemn pantomime, with the dry humor left up to our own imaginations.
- The vast majority of this movie is told in near pantomime: gestures, facial expressions, and stage direction.
- In a totally unstructured environment, they present this creative explosion through modern dance, mime, pantomime and music with a whole lot of playfulness.
- In portraying vivid dramatic characters, realistic pantomime plays as important a role as the dance.
- With his silent pantomime and human special effect stature, the performance borders on the right side of genius.
Synonyms dumb show, pantomime, mummery 3An absurdly exaggerated piece of behaviour. 荒唐可笑的夸张行为 he made a pantomime of checking his watch 他很夸张地看了一下表。 Example sentencesExamples - He attacks Royal Ascot for being an absurdity and a pantomime.
- The youthful energy and innovation have gone, and his choice of sport is problematic because wrestling is already a theatrical pantomime.
- He has described the last meeting of Castlebar Town Council as the most entertaining performance of a pantomime that has been rehearsing for the last four years.
- I have no idea if any of the fruit ever entered his mouth, or if his body could actually interact with corporeal objects, or if he was only performing an elaborate pantomime for my benefit.
- Cameron's posing on a podium on Friday, inviting Lib Dems to join his Tory revolution, was an appropriate piece of pantomime to end Parliament's last full week before Christmas.
Synonyms fuss, commotion, trouble, bother, upset, agitation, stir, excitement, ado, hurly-burly, palaver, rigmarole - 3.1 An absurd or confused situation.
〈非正式〉滑稽可笑的情景（或事情）；混乱的情景（或事情） the drive to town was a pantomime 驱车进城的一路上真是荒唐可笑。 Example sentencesExamples - The room is now illuminated only by the television that paints its own confused pantomime on the walls.
- Feeding time, for them all, is a real pantomime!
- The pantomime descended into tragedy last week and this evening became a farce.
- Rocky needed a bath and that is a real pantomime as he HATES being washed.
Synonyms commotion, uproar, outcry, disturbance, hubbub, hurly-burly, fuss, upset, tumult, brouhaha, palaver, to-do, pother, turmoil, tempest, agitation, pandemonium, confusion
verb ˈpantəmʌɪmˈpæn(t)əˌmaɪm [with object]Express or represent by exaggerated mime. 用过分夸张的手势和动作表达 they pantomimed picking up dropped food Example sentencesExamples - He nodded and pantomimed with his hands how he sprayed the medication into his nostrils.
- ‘I was up here,’ Berra, 76, says as he pantomimes a helicopter swing.
- Lifting each piece, he pointed at the corresponding article of clothing on his own body, then pantomimed putting it on.
- He carefully avoided touching the microphone, then pantomimed giving a dramatic speech, suppressing a grin as he imagined himself the next great leader of some national movement.
- She made a waving motion with her hand in front of her mouth, trying to pantomime words coming from her.
- Tom sighed and pointed to the crater, then pantomimed climbing down.
- She stops to pantomime the drawing back of an arrow in a bow and lets the arrow fly.
- When she didn't answer, he pantomimed drinking, then pointed from her to himself.
- Simon glances at him, sees the hood, shrugs, then pantomimes the drill, pointing down at the ice, finger going in circles.
- An example of a test for apraxia is to ask the patient to pantomime the use of a common object such as a hammer or a toothbrush.
- He pantomimed throwing the lasso around the horse's neck, then whooped and made as if to wave his hat through the air.
- He opened his mouth and pantomimed sticking his finger down his throat, and then gagging.
- I pantomimed opening a letter and smoothing it out.
- He can also pantomime explosions and use a simple movement to suggest a picture, and it just comes across.
- He dramatically pantomimed singing that line, but did nothing else.
- You sing along, making sure to pantomime your heart breaking.
- She pantomimed hurt, placing her free hand melodramatically on her breast.
- With a single, fluid step, he brought the staff whistling through the air in both hands, and then released one hand to pantomime a short jab.
- The scene began, and I pantomimed that I was writing in my notebook and I became totally engrossed.
- He pantomimed zipping his lips and throwing away the key.
Synonyms act out, pantomime, use gestures to indicate, gesture, simulate, represent, indicate by dumb show, indicate by sign language
OriginLate 16th century (first used in the Latin form and denoting an actor using mime): from French pantomime or Latin pantomimus, from Greek pantomimos 'imitator of all' (see panto-, mime). This word comes from Greek pantomimos ‘imitator of all’. In Latin pantomimus was used for an actor using mime. This later developed into a comic dramatization with the stock characters of Clown, Pantaloon (see pantaloons), Harlequin, and Columbine. The familiar panto based on fairy tales such as Mother Goose or Cinderella and involving music, topical jokes, and slapstick comedy developed in the 19th century, with a new set of conventional characters including the dame, the principal boy, and the pantomime horse. Mime (early 17th century) and mimic (late 16th century) come from the same root.
Definition of pantomime in US English: pantomimenounˈpæn(t)əˌmaɪmˈpan(t)əˌmīm 1A dramatic entertainment, originating in Roman mime, in which performers express meaning through gestures accompanied by music. 哑剧 Example sentencesExamples - These kinds of inferential processes go on constantly in interaction, as we all know, on the basis of indexical signals that work like gestures in pantomime.
- The vast majority of this movie is told in near pantomime: gestures, facial expressions, and stage direction.
- There are no words in the film - everything is performed in a solemn pantomime, with the dry humor left up to our own imaginations.
- Her major example is ‘Circe,’ where gesture and pantomime are all-important.
- In a totally unstructured environment, they present this creative explosion through modern dance, mime, pantomime and music with a whole lot of playfulness.
- With his silent pantomime and human special effect stature, the performance borders on the right side of genius.
- In portraying vivid dramatic characters, realistic pantomime plays as important a role as the dance.
Synonyms dumb show, pantomime, mummery - 1.1 An absurdly exaggerated piece of behavior.
荒唐可笑的夸张行为 he made a pantomime of checking his watch 他很夸张地看了一下表。 Example sentencesExamples - He has described the last meeting of Castlebar Town Council as the most entertaining performance of a pantomime that has been rehearsing for the last four years.
- I have no idea if any of the fruit ever entered his mouth, or if his body could actually interact with corporeal objects, or if he was only performing an elaborate pantomime for my benefit.
- Cameron's posing on a podium on Friday, inviting Lib Dems to join his Tory revolution, was an appropriate piece of pantomime to end Parliament's last full week before Christmas.
- The youthful energy and innovation have gone, and his choice of sport is problematic because wrestling is already a theatrical pantomime.
- He attacks Royal Ascot for being an absurdity and a pantomime.
Synonyms fuss, commotion, trouble, bother, upset, agitation, stir, excitement, ado, hurly-burly, palaver, rigmarole - 1.2informal A ridiculous or confused situation or event.
〈非正式〉滑稽可笑的情景（或事情）；混乱的情景（或事情） the drive to town was a pantomime 驱车进城的一路上真是荒唐可笑。 Example sentencesExamples - The room is now illuminated only by the television that paints its own confused pantomime on the walls.
- Feeding time, for them all, is a real pantomime!
- Rocky needed a bath and that is a real pantomime as he HATES being washed.
- The pantomime descended into tragedy last week and this evening became a farce.
Synonyms commotion, uproar, outcry, disturbance, hubbub, hurly-burly, fuss, upset, tumult, brouhaha, palaver, to-do, pother, turmoil, tempest, agitation, pandemonium, confusion
2British A theatrical entertainment, mainly for children, that involves music, topical jokes, and slapstick comedy and is based on a fairy tale or nursery story, usually produced around Christmas. Example sentencesExamples - This pantomime follows the story line closely, and yet manages to get the up to date flavour with some current pop chart songs, which go down very well with the younger members of the audience.
- Headteacher Carole Whitehurst says it was quite an eye opener for a generation of children who are far more familiar with Disney's version of fables and fairytales than the pantomimes.
- We started putting on entertainment shows at the Harvest Supper and pantomimes at Christmas.
- Shield composed more than 40 light operas, pantomimes, and ballad operas, as well as string quartets and trios, other instrumental pieces, and numerous songs.
- They take up residence at the Pavilion Theatre for the annual pantomime of silly jokes and bad wigs in an all new, up-to-date production of Jack and the Beanstalk.
- She was in a pantomime at Christmas and was dancing and singing, said Mr Riordan.
- Calne Players will be bringing all the fun and laughter of a pantomime to the town next week with their performance of Cinderella.
- He is one of life's nice guys - yet he always plays villains in pantomimes.
- The society have been at the forefront of local theatrical drama for over two decades, staging some magnificent productions in serious drama, comedy, pantomime and more.
- Sleeping Beauty is a tale most people know mainly through pantomimes and the work of Walt Disney but at Stonar School pupils wanted to get back to basics and tell the original tale.
- On stage he has played character roles in Ray Cooney farces, pantomime, Noel Coward comedies and serious drama.
- In carnival, the Commedia dell'Arte, the pantomime, and slapstick we find a modern expression of the trickster impulse.
- Roll over Cinderella and tell Sleeping Beauty the news, York has a new and most unlikely pantomime in town.
- Meanwhile, fans of side-splitting comedy can also take in the Grand Opera House's Christmas pantomime, Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs.
- When Christmas came along these theatres presented spectacular pantomimes with massive stars, whether of the theatre, the films, or in later years, television.
- Last month, about 80 children, aged between eight and 11, auditioned for the Christmas pantomime, all hoping to tread the boards alongside the cast.
- To add to the magic of Christmas, pantomimes offer exciting and engaging family entertainment, and Glasgow offers a fun-filled selection.
- Hart plays the genie in this raucous take on the British pantomime, a story based on the myth of Aladdin and his magic lamp.
- He has also written children's plays, pantomimes, comedy sketches and radio commercials and has directed more than 100 productions, spanning everything from Shakespeare to stand-up comedy.
- With a London debut in 1891, he quickly established a successful career in music-hall, variety, pantomime, revue, operetta, and musical comedy.
verbˈpæn(t)əˌmaɪmˈpan(t)əˌmīm [with object]Express or represent (something) by extravagant and exaggerated mime. 用过分夸张的手势和动作表达 the clown candidates pantomimed different emotions Example sentencesExamples - She pantomimed hurt, placing her free hand melodramatically on her breast.
- An example of a test for apraxia is to ask the patient to pantomime the use of a common object such as a hammer or a toothbrush.
- He opened his mouth and pantomimed sticking his finger down his throat, and then gagging.
- She stops to pantomime the drawing back of an arrow in a bow and lets the arrow fly.
- I pantomimed opening a letter and smoothing it out.
- He pantomimed zipping his lips and throwing away the key.
- He dramatically pantomimed singing that line, but did nothing else.
- When she didn't answer, he pantomimed drinking, then pointed from her to himself.
- Simon glances at him, sees the hood, shrugs, then pantomimes the drill, pointing down at the ice, finger going in circles.
- He pantomimed throwing the lasso around the horse's neck, then whooped and made as if to wave his hat through the air.
- With a single, fluid step, he brought the staff whistling through the air in both hands, and then released one hand to pantomime a short jab.
- She made a waving motion with her hand in front of her mouth, trying to pantomime words coming from her.
- The scene began, and I pantomimed that I was writing in my notebook and I became totally engrossed.
- He can also pantomime explosions and use a simple movement to suggest a picture, and it just comes across.
- ‘I was up here,’ Berra, 76, says as he pantomimes a helicopter swing.
- Lifting each piece, he pointed at the corresponding article of clothing on his own body, then pantomimed putting it on.
- Tom sighed and pointed to the crater, then pantomimed climbing down.
- He carefully avoided touching the microphone, then pantomimed giving a dramatic speech, suppressing a grin as he imagined himself the next great leader of some national movement.
- You sing along, making sure to pantomime your heart breaking.
- He nodded and pantomimed with his hands how he sprayed the medication into his nostrils.
Synonyms act out, pantomime, use gestures to indicate, gesture, simulate, represent, indicate by dumb show, indicate by sign language
OriginLate 16th century (first used in the Latin form and denoting an actor using mime): from French pantomime or Latin pantomimus, from Greek pantomimos ‘imitator of all’ (see panto-, mime). |