charades en · NOUN
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.
Meanings
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(form-of, plural) plural of charade
form of charade
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(uncountable) 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 […]
1909, Booth Tarkington, Beasley's Christmas Party:
Translations (20)
de pantomimisches Ratespiel (game) · ja シャレード (game) · hu kitalálós játék (game) · fa پانتومیم (game) · cs šarády (game) · sv levande charad (game) · pl kalambury (game) · es charadas (game) · ca xarada (game) · fi pantomiimi (game) · ru шара́да (game) · sv charad (game) · ja ジェスチャーゲーム (game) · cmn 比手畫腳 /比手画脚 (game) · pt mímica (game) · hu most mutasd meg (game) · tr sessiz sinema (game) · fr mime (game) · ko 몸으로 말해요 (game) · de Scharade (game)