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mummer
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of MUMMER
1
an actor in a story performed silently and entirely by body movements <a street festival featuring mummers in a pantomime>
Related Words busker [chiefly British], entertainer, performer, player, trouper; aper, imitator, impersonator, impressionist; clown, pantaloon
2
one who acts professionally (as in a play, movie, or television show) <those moonstruck mummers on TV soap operas who have more hair than talent>
Related Words barnstormer, enactor, entertainer, performer; actress, starlet; lead, leading lady, leading man, star; coactor, costar; extra, spear-carrier, supernumerary, walk-on; monologuist (or monologist); prima donna, scene-stealer; double, understudy; comedian, farceur; tragedian, tragedienne; ape, aper, ham, imitator, impressionist, masker, masquerader, mime, mimic, pantomime, pantomimist, personator, poser; buffoon, clown, harlequin, stooge, zany
Antonyms nonactor
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