different between mime vs comedian

English

Etymology

From Old English m?ma ("a mime") from Latin mimus, from Ancient Greek ????? (mîmos, “imitator, actor”). Reinforced in Middle English by French mime.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?m/
• Rhymes: -a?m

Noun

mime (countable and uncountable, plural mimes)

1. A form of acting without words; pantomime.
2. A pantomime actor.
3. A classical theatrical entertainment in the form of farce.
4. A performer of such a farce.
5. A person who mimics others in a comical manner.
6. Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Chilasa or Papilio, that mimic other species in appearance.

Related terms

• pantomime

Translations

Verb

mime (third-person singular simple present mimes, present participle miming, simple past and past participle mimed)

1. To mimic.
2. To act without words.
3. To represent an action or object through gesture, without the use of sound.

Translations

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:imitate

See also

• lip-synch

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mim/
• Rhymes: -im

Etymology 1

From Latin mimus, from Ancient Greek ????? (mîmos)

Noun

mime m (plural mimes)

1. pantomime actor, mime
2. pantomime

Derived terms

• mimer

Etymology 2

Verb

mime

1. first-person singular present indicative of mimer
2. third-person singular present indicative of mimer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of mimer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of mimer
5. second-person singular imperative of mimer

Anagrams

• emmi

Further reading

• “mime” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Pronunciation

Verb

mime

1. inflection of mimen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Japanese

Romanization

mime

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Latin

Noun

m?me

1. vocative singular of m?mus

Portuguese

Verb

mime

1. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of mimir
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of mimir

Spanish

Verb

mime

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of mimar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of mimar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of mimar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of mimar.

English

Etymology

comedy +? -ian. From Middle French comédien, from comédie (“comedy”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /k??mi?di.?n/

Noun

comedian (plural comedians) (feminine: comedienne)

1. An entertainer who performs in a humorous manner, especially by telling jokes.

   Synonym: comic

2. (by extension) Any person who is humorous or amusing, either characteristically or on a particular occasion.

   Synonyms: card, cutup, gagster, joker, wag, wit

3. (dated) A person who performs in theatrical plays.

   Synonyms: actor, player, thespian

   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act V, Scene 2,^[1]

     […] the quick comedians

     Extemporally will stage us, and present

     Our Alexandrian revels;

   • 1714, Susanna Centlivre, The Wonder, London: E. Curll and A. Bettesworth, Preface,^[2]

     I Don’t pretend to write a Preface, either to point out the Beauties, or to excuse the Errors, a judicious Reader may possibly discover in the following Scenes, but to give those excellent Comedians their Due, to whom, in some Measure the best Dramatick Writers are oblig’d.

   • 1755, George Colman, The Connaisseur, London: R. Baldwin, Volume 1, p. 1,^[3]

     When a Comedian, celebrated for his excellence in the part of Shylock, first undertook that character, he made daily visits to the center of business, the ’Change, and the adjacent Coffee-houses; that by a frequent intercourse and conversation with “the unforeskinn’d race,” he might habituate himself to their air and deportment.

   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 51,^[4]

     Becky, the nightingale, took the flowers which he threw to her and pressed them to her heart with the air of a consummate comedian.

4. (obsolete) A writer of comedies.
   • 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica, London, p. 5,^[5]

     Neither is it recorded that the writings of those old Comedians were supprest, though the acting of them were forbid;

   • 1783, Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, London: Whitestone et al., Volume 3, Lecture 47, p. 377,^[6]

     […] the Dramatic Author, in whom the French glory most, and whom they justly place at the head of all their Comedians, is, the famous Moliere.

Synonyms

• funnyman/funnywoman

Hypernyms

• (male comedian): comedian (male and female)

Hyponyms

• (comedian, male and female): comedian (male), comedienne (female)

See also

• tragedian

Translations

Anagrams

• daemonic, demoniac, dæmonic, midocean

Romanian

Etymology

From French comédien.

Noun

comedian m (plural comedieni)

1. comedian

Declension