noun
Meaning 1
plural of charade
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
charades
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Sound
Pronunciation
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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CMU ARPABET: SH ER0 EY1 D Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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verb
Meaning 3
third-person singular simple present indicative of charade
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
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noun
Meaning 4
player acts out a phrase for others to guess
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: guessing game
History
Etymology
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.
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: xarada — game
- Chinese Mandarin: 比手畫腳 /比手画脚 (zbǐshǒuhuàjiǎo) — game
- Czech: šarády — game
- Finnish: pantomiimi — game
- French: mime — game
- German: Scharade — game
- German: pantomimisches Ratespiel — game
- Hungarian: kitalálós játék — game
- Hungarian: most mutasd meg — game
- Japanese: シャレード (sharēdo) — game
- Japanese: ジェスチャーゲーム (jesuchā gēmu) — game
- Korean: 몸으로 말해요 — game
- Persian: پانتومیم (pântomim) — game
- Polish: kalambury — game
- Portuguese: mímica — game
- Russian: шара́да (šaráda) — game
- Spanish: charadas — game
- Swedish: charad — game
- Swedish: levande charad — game
- Turkish: sessiz sinema — game
Real reading context