Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
charade . - noun in the plural A
game in which participantsact out aword orphrase withouttalking for others toguess .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun player acts out a phrase for others to guess
Etymologies
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Examples
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And they came to the beautiful house and made merry, played "guessing words" -- what we call charades, quite a new thing then -- and it made no end of merriment.
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When we appear to be no more than holodeck characters, it will be very difficult to maintain charades like dualism.
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If I don’t get the language right away, it’s okay, charades is cross-cultural
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If I don’t get the language right away, it’s okay, charades is cross-cultural
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Hollywood types play a variation called running charades, which is like a charades relay race, running from room to room.
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Hollywood types play a variation called running charades, which is like a charades relay race, running from room to room.
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One of the best actors in the charades was our father.
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Try charades, which is a real eye opener about children's personalities.
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What we have to figure out how to do is to have a system that offers enough encouragement and assistance in real terms, not the kind of charades that we've seen over the last 12 years.
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But Julie is no less dismissive of what she calls the "charades" of the likes of T.E. Lawrence and Hester Stanhope.
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