mime
noun/maɪm/
/maɪm/
(also less frequent dumbshow)
[uncountable, countable]- (especially in the theatre) the use of movements of your hands or body and the expressions on your face to tell a story or to act something without speaking; a performance using this method of acting
- The performance consisted of dance, music and mime.
- a mime artist
- She performed a brief mime.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryMime is used before these nouns:- artist
Word Originearly 17th cent. (also in the sense ‘mimic or jester’): from Latin mimus, from Greek mimos.
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