pantomimeとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈpæn.təˌmʌɪm/
  • (米国発音, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈpæn.təˌmaɪm/

名詞

pantomime (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 pantomimes)

1. (now rare) A Classical comic actor, especially one who works mainly through gesture and mime. [from 17th c.]
   • 1865, Edward Burnett Tylor, Researches into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization

     [He] saw a pantomime perform so well that he could follow the performance from the action alone.

2. (historical) The drama in ancient Greece and Rome featuring such performers; or (later) any of various kinds of performance modelled on such work. [from 17th c.]
3. (UK) A traditional theatrical entertainment, originally based on the commedia dell'arte, but later aimed mostly at children and involving physical comedy, topical jokes, call and response, and fairy-tale plots. [from 18th c.]
   • 2011 October 20, Michael da Silva, “Stoke 3 - 0 Macc Tel-Aviv”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     With the Stoke supporters jeering Ziv's every subsequent touch, the pantomime atmosphere created by the home crowd reached a crescendo when Ziv was shown a straight red shortly after the break in extraordinary circumstances.

4. Gesturing without speaking; dumb-show, mime. [from 18th c.]
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 26”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299:

     #*: A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds.

   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 26:

     In pantomime, Chief Joyi would fling his spear and creep along the veld as he narrated the victories and defeats.

派生語

• panto

関連する語

• dame
• dumb show
• mime
• pantomimical

参考

• sign language

参考

• dumb show

動詞

pantomime (三人称単数 現在形 pantomimes, 現在分詞 pantomiming, 過去形および過去分詞形 pantomimed)

1. (transitive) To make (a gesture) without speaking.

   I pantomimed steering a car; he understood, and tossed the keys to me.

2. (transitive) To entertain others by silent gestures or actions. (Can we add an example for this sense?)