charades
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charades
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See charade. As a game, originally a clipped form of acting charades or, without talking, dumb charades but now usually understood as a plurale tantum.
noun
- plural of charade
noun
- 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. […] 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 […]
verb
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third-person singular simple present indicative of charade
Similar: acting charades, dumb charades
Translations
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noun game
| Español | charadas |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 몸으로 말해요 |
| 日本語 | シャレード sharēdo, ジェスチャーゲーム jesuchā gēmu |
| 中文 | 比手畫腳 /比手画脚 zbǐshǒuhuàjiǎo |
| Português | mímica |
| Français | mime |
| Deutsch | Scharade, pantomimisches Ratespiel |
| Русский | шара́да šaráda |
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