ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Charades

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Charades is a noun meaning plural of charade.

Meaning

plural of charade.

More Meanings

  1. A game in which each player acts out a word or phrase, usually based on puns of each syllable and without speaking, for the others to guess.
  2. third-person singular simple present indicative of charade

Example Sentences

[…] it looked like a house where they played charades, where there would be long streamers of evergreen and dozens of wreaths of holly at Christmas-time, where there were tearful, happy weddings and great throwings of rice after little brides […]

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include takeoff, burlesque, spoof, parody, sendup, travesty.

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