different between pantomime vs harlequinade

English

Etymology

Circa 17th century, from Latin pantom?mus, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (pantómimos), from ??? (pâs, “each, all”) + ???????? (miméomai, “I mimic”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pant??m??m/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?pænt??ma?m/

Noun

pantomime (countable and uncountable, plural 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. (Britain) 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.]
4. Gesturing without speaking; dumb-show, mime. [from 18th c.]
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 26

     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.

Derived terms

• panto

Related terms

• dame
• dumb show
• mime
• pantomimical

See also

• sign language

Translations

See also

• dumb show

Verb

pantomime (third-person singular simple present pantomimes, present participle pantomiming, simple past and past participle 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?)

Translations

Italian

Noun

pantomime f

1. plural of pantomima

Latin

Noun

pantom?me

1. vocative singular of pantom?mus

English

Etymology

From French arlequinade.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /h??l?kw??ne?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Noun

harlequinade (plural harlequinades)

1. A pantomime-like comedy featuring the harlequin or clown.
2. Any comical or fantastical procedure or playfulness.
   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 154:

     Away up the gorge all diurnal fancies trooped into the wide liberties of endless luminous vistas of azure sunlit mountains beneath the shining azure heavens, the ranges and valleys changing with every mood of the atmosphere, with the harlequinade of the clouds and the wind.

Translations

See also

• commedia dell'arte