pantomime

• n. パントマイム；ダンスシアター；ジェスチャー
• vi. ジェスチャーをする；パントマイムをする
• vt. ジェスチャーをする；パントマイムを演じる

パント、オール、マイム、イミテーション、パントマイム。

pantomime

pantomime: [17] In ancient Rome, a pantomīmus was a ‘mime artist’, a sort of Marcel Marceau performer who acted scenes, incidents, etc without words. The term was adopted from Greek pantómōmos ‘complete imitator’, a compound formed from panto- ‘all’ and mōmos ‘imitator, actor’ (source of English mime). English originally took the word over in this historical sense, and it was not until the early 18th century that it began to be used first for a sort of mime ballet and then for a play without words, relating a popular tale, which gradually developed into the Christmas fairy-tale pantomimes of the 19th and 20th centuries.

The abbreviation panto dates from the mid-19th century.
=> mime

pantomime (n.)

1610s, "mime actor," from Latin pantomimus "mime, dancer," from Greek pantomimos "actor," literally "imitator of all," from panto- (genitive of pan) "all" (see pan-) + mimos "imitator" (see mime (n.)).

Meaning "drama or play without words" first recorded 1735. The English dramatic performances so called, usually at Christmas and with words and songs and stock characters, are attested by this name from 1739; said to have originated c. 1717. Related: Pantomimic; pantomimical.

pantomime (v.)

1768, from pantomime (n.). Related: Pantomimed; pantomiming.

1. He is currently starring in pantomime in Weston-super-Mare.

彼は現在、浜海ウェストンでクリスマス童話ドラマに主演している。

2. Pantomime is about bringing laughter to thousands.

クリスマス童話劇は、何千万人もの人々に笑いをもたらすことを目的としている。

3.The audience roared at the pantomime .

観客はこのパントマイムに大笑いした。

4.They were made welcome with the usual pantomime of exaggerated smiles and gestures.

彼らはいつものように歓迎され、誇張された笑顔と姿は茶番劇のようだ。