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Definition of Mime

Mime

  1. A kind of drama in which real persons and events were generally represented in a ridiculous manner.
  2. An actor in such representations.
  3. To mimic.
If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?
Steven Wright

My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.
Adele

I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.
David Bowie

Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.
Marcel Marceau

My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful with it.
Marion Cotillard

Mime Translations

mime in Swedish is mime, pantomin

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