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cha·rade

(shə-rād′)
n.
1. Games
a. charades(used with a sing. or pl. verb) A game in which words or phrases are represented in pantomime, sometimes syllable by syllable, until they are guessed by the other players.
b. An episode in this game or a word or phrase so represented.
2. A readily perceived pretense; a travesty: went through the charade of a public apology.
[French, probably from Provençal charrado, chat, from charra, to chat, chatter, perhaps from Italian ciarlare.]
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charades

(ʃəˈrɑːdz)
n
(Games, other than specified) (functioning as singular) a parlour game in which one team acts out each syllable of a word, the other team having to guess the word
[C18: from French charade entertainment, from Provençal charrado chat, from charra chatter, of imitative origin]
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Noun 1. [画像:charades - player acts out a phrase for others to guess]charades - player acts out a phrase for others to guess
guessing game - a game in which participants compete to identify some obscurely indicated thing
charade - a word acted out in an episode of the game of charades
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Translations
حَزاير تَمْثيليّه
šaráda
gæt og grimasser
kitalálósdi
látbragîsgáta
šaráda
sessiz filmsözcük bulma oyunu

charade

(ʃəˈraːd) , ((American) ʃəˈreid) noun
a piece of ridiculous pretence which is so obvious that it does not deceive anyone. charade تَظاهُر هَزَلي مَكْشوف очевидно драматизиране farsa parodie die Scharade paradenummer γελοίο πρόσχημα, παρωδία farsa paroodia تظاهر ناشیانه läpinäkyvä teeskentely parodie הצגה प्रहेलिका, पहेली šarada, igra pogađanja „komédia" sandiwara látaleikur, skopstæling sciarada 見えすいた口実 빤히 들여다 보이는 수작 akivaizdi apgaulė farss kepura-puraan charade temmelig tynt/lett gjennomskuelig påskudd farsa حرف جنګى، په دې لو به كى ګډون كوونكى دخپلې املا قوت څرګندوي، مثلا كه لومړى سړى ديوې كلمې لومړى توری ووايي نو يې په خپل وار پشپړ وي farsa comedie; mascaradă бессмысленный фарс paródia šarada farsa charad การแสร้ง; หลอกหลวง numara 明顯騙人的藉口 шарада جھوٹا بہانہ ، غلط حیلہ làm ngơ 易识破的借口
chaˈrades noun singular
a game in which each syllable of a word, and then the whole word, is acted and the audience has to guess the word. stomstreke حَزاير تَمْثيليّه шарада jogo de mímica šaráda das Silbenrätsel gæt og grimasser συλλαβόγριφος charada šaraad بازی حدس زدن واژه sananarvauspeli charade מִשחָק נִחוּשִים पहेली šarada kitalálósdi permainan kata látbragðsgáta sciarada ジェスチャー遊び 제스처 게임 šarada šarāde permainan charade charade ordgåtelek gra towarzyska, szarada یوه دوله لوبه ده charada şaradă шарада šaráda zlogovna uganka šarada charader การทายคําปริศนา sözcük bulma oyunu, sessiz film 比手劃腳猜英語字遊戲 гра в шаради الفاظ کا ایک کھیل trò đố chữ 动作字谜游戏(一种看手势猜字谜游戏)
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He was invited to contribute any really good enigmas, charades, or conundrums that he might recollect; and she had the pleasure of seeing him most intently at work with his recollections; and at the same time, as she could perceive, most earnestly careful that nothing ungallant, nothing that did not breathe a compliment to the sex should pass his lips.
I have read worse charades. Courtshipa very good hint.
As soon as the merry meal and a brief interval of repose were over, it was unanimously voted to have some charades. A smooth, green spot between two stately pines was chosen for the stage; shawls hung up, properties collected, audience and actors separated, and a word quickly chosen.
So everyone but Mac, the gay Westerner, and Rose, took their places on the rocky seats and discussed the late beautiful and varied charade, in which Pokey frankly pronounced her own scene the "bestest of all."
Such disappointments only gave greater zest to the nights when we acted charades, or had a costume ball in the back parlour, with Sally always dressed like a boy.
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They had never, I think, wanted to do so many things for their poor protectress; I mean--though they got their lessons better and better, which was naturally what would please her most-- in the way of diverting, entertaining, surprising her; reading her passages, telling her stories, acting her charades, pouncing out at her, in disguises, as animals and historical characters, and above all astonishing her by the "pieces" they had secretly got by heart and could interminably recite.
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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.
"Bridewell!" exclaimed Colonel Dent, and the charade was solved.
The acting of charades was tried on several evenings by the young gentlemen and ladies, in the cabins, and proved the most distinguished success of all the amusement experiments.
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At this time the amiable amusement of acting charades had come among us from France, and was considerably in vogue in this country, enabling the many ladies amongst us who had beauty to display their charms, and the fewer number who had cleverness to exhibit their wit.
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Badger, speaking of her former husbands as if they were parts of a charade, "I still enjoyed opportunities of observing youth.
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And yet people do not get hanged or run through the body for the sake of a charade.
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