charades
A game in which each player acts out a word or phrase, usually based on puns of each…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.
Meaning
1 senses(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.
Scharade, pantomimisches Ratespiel
шара́даšaráda
guessing game in which one player pantomimes a word or phrase for others to guess
Translations
7 languagesBy meaning 1
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Origin
See charade. As a game, originally a clipped form of acting charades or, without talking,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.
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Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
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