Meaning of MUMMER
| Pronunciation: | | 'mumur
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| | Definition: | | [n] an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression |
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| | Synonyms: | | mime, mimer, pantomimer, pantomimist |
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| | See Also: | | actor, histrion, Marceau, Marcel Marceau, player, role player, thespian | |
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| | Definition: | | \Mumm"er\, n. [Cf. OF. mommeur. See {Mumm}, and cf.
{Momier}.]
One who mumms, or makes diversion in disguise; a masker; a
buffon.
Jugglers and dancers, antics, mummers. --Milton.
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| | Related Terms: | | actor, actress, antagonist, artist, artiste, bad guy, barnstormer, belly dancer, burlesque queen, character, character actor, character man, character woman, child actor, chorine, chorus boy, chorus girl, conjurer, coryphee, dancer, dancing girl, diseur, diseuse, dramatizer, ecdysiast, entertainer, exotic dancer, feeder, female impersonator, foil, geisha, geisha girl, guisard, guiser, heavy, histrio, histrion, hoofer, impersonator, incognita, incognito, ingenue, juvenile, magician, masker, masquerader, matinee idol, mime, mimer, mimic, monologist, mountebank, musician, nautch girl, pantomime, pantomimist, peeler, performer, playactor, player, prestidigitator, protean actor, public entertainer, reciter, Roscius, show girl, singer, soubrette, stage performer, stage player, stooge, straight man, stripper, stripteaser, stripteuse, stroller, strolling player, theatrical, thespian, trouper, utility man, vaudevillian, vaudevillist, villain |
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