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mime
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)
- A form of acting without words; pantomime.
- A pantomime actor.
- A classical theatrical entertainment in the form of farce.
- A performer of such a farce.
- A person who mimics others in a comical manner.
- 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)
- To mimic.
- To act without words.
- 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)
- pantomime actor, mime
- pantomime
Derived terms
- mimer
Etymology 2
Verb
mime
- first-person singular present indicative of mimer
- third-person singular present indicative of mimer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of mimer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of mimer
- 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
- inflection of mimen:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
Japanese
Romanization
mime
- R?maji transcription of ??
Latin
Noun
m?me
- vocative singular of m?mus
Portuguese
Verb
mime
- Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of mimir
- Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você?) present indicative of mimir
Spanish
Verb
mime
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of mimar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of mimar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of mimar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of mimar.
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theater
English
Alternative forms
- theatre (standard spelling in all English-speaking countries that use British spelling)
Etymology
From Middle English theater, theatre, from Old French theatre, from Latin theatrum, from Ancient Greek ??????? (théatron, “a place for viewing”), from ??????? (theáomai, “to see", "to watch", "to observe”). Doublet of tiatr.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /??i(?)t?/, sometimes /????.t?/
- (Canada, Southern American English) IPA(key): /??i(?)t?/, /??i.e?.t?/
- (UK) IPA(key): /??i??.t?/, /????.t?/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /??i?t?/, [??i??t?], [??i????]
Noun
theater (countable and uncountable, plural theaters) (American spelling)
- A place or building, consisting of a stage and seating, in which an audience gathers to watch plays, musical performances, public ceremonies, and so on.
- A region where a particular action takes place; a specific field of action, usually with reference to war.
- A lecture theatre.
- (medicine) An operating theatre or locale for human experimentation.
- (US) A cinema.
- Drama or performance as a profession or art form.
- Any place rising by steps like the seats of a theater.
Usage notes
- The spelling theatre is the main spelling in British English, with theater being rare.
- In United States English, theater accounts for about 80 percent of usage in the major corpus of usage, COCA.
- Among American theatre professionals, there is some usage of the two spellings in order to differentiate between the location theater (as in definitions 1–5) and the art-form theatre (definition 6). A variant of this differentiation is the usage of theatre for things relating to live performances (as in definitions 1 and 6) with theater being used for all other uses.
Synonyms
- fabulous invalid
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- Appendix:Glossary of theatre
Anagrams
- hat tree, hattree, teareth, tethera, theatre, thereat
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French théâtre, from Old French theatre, from Latin theatrum, from Ancient Greek ??????? (théatron, “a place for viewing”), from ??????? (theáomai, “to see", "to watch", "to observe”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /te??(j)a?t?r/
- Hyphenation: the?a?ter
- Rhymes: -a?t?r
Noun
theater n (plural theaters, diminutive theatertje n)
- theater (US), theatre (Commonwealth): either drama, the art form, or a drama theater (building)
Synonyms
- schouwburg
Derived terms
- danstheater
- theaterkunst
- volkstheater
Descendants
- Afrikaans: teater
- ? Indonesian: teater
Middle English
Alternative forms
- theatre, teatre, theatyr, theatere
Etymology
From Old French theatre, from Latin theatrum, from Ancient Greek ??????? (théatron).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t??at?r/, /?t???a?t?r/
Noun
theater
- A theatre open to the sky; an amphitheatre.
- Any stage which plays and performances take place at.
- (rare) A whorehouse.
Descendants
- English: theater, theatre
- Scots: theatre
References
- “th????tre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-19.
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