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charades
/ʃɚˈeɪdz/
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What does charades mean?
noun
- plural of charade
- 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.
verb
- third-person singular simple present indicative of charade
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IPA pronunciation
/ʃɚˈeɪdz/
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In some form or other the game of charades is played in almost every country under the sun.
After supper the young people played charades for the amusement of their elders, who sat gossiping between their guesses.
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Only all the family, including the father, joined in charades and games at evening.
He wrote reviews, and lectured, or amused himself in playing charades, and reading poetry.
I wondered what they were going to do the first evening a change of entertainment was proposed: they spoke of “playing charades,” but in my ignorance I did not understand the term.