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- DictionaryCha·rade/SHəˈrād/
noun
- 1. an absurd pretense intended to create a pleasant or respectable appearance: "talk of unity was nothing more than a charade"
The meaning of CHARADE is a word represented in riddling verse or by picture, tableau, or dramatic action (such as intrusion represented by depiction of inn, true, and shun). How to use charade in a sentence.
Charade definition: a game in which the players are typically divided into two teams, members of which take turns at acting out in pantomime a word, phrase, title, etc., which the members of their own team must guess.. See examples of CHARADE used in a sentence.
a team game in which each member tries to communicate to the others a particular word or phrase that they have been given, by expressing each syllable or word using silent actions: Our family used to love playing charades. See more.
a team game in which each member tries to communicate to the others a particular word or phrase that they have been given, by expressing each syllable or word using silent actions: Our family used to love playing charades. See more.
Charades (UK: / ʃ ə ˈ r ɑː d z /, US: / ʃ ə ˈ r eɪ d z /) is a parlor or party word guessing game. Originally, the game was a dramatic form of literary charades: a single person would act out each syllable of a word or phrase in order, followed by the whole phrase together, while the rest of the group guessed.
noun. a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way. synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty. see more. see less. type of: caricature, imitation, impersonation.
If you describe someone's actions as a charade, you mean that their actions are so obviously false that they do not convince anyone.
noun. /ʃəˈrɑːd/. /ʃəˈreɪd/. [countable] a situation in which people pretend that something is true when it clearly is not synonym pretence. Their whole marriage had been a charade—they had never loved each other.
a situation that is clearly false, but where people behave as if it is true or serious: The interview was just a charade.
A word or phrase acted out or described as in verse, for others to guess. A game in which two teams compete to see which can more quickly guess a group of words or phrases chosen by the other team and acted out in pantomime, often syllable by syllable, by the members of their own.
