charades

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Noun

1. plural form of charade

Noun

charades (uncountable)

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.
   • 1909, Booth Tarkington, Beasley's Christmas Party

     […] 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 […]

Synonyms

• (game) acting charades, dumb charades (obsolete)

Translations

• French: mime
• German: Scharade, pantomimisches Ratespiel
• Portuguese: mímica
• Russian: шара́да

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