"charades" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

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. Etymology templates: {{m|en|charade}} charade, {{m|en|acting charades}} acting charades, {{m|en|dumb charades}} dumb charades Head templates: {{head|en|noun form}} charades
  1. plural of charade Tags: form-of, plural Form of: charade
    Sense id: en-charades-en-noun-6JThGk4b

Noun [English]

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. Etymology templates: {{m|en|charade}} charade, {{m|en|acting charades}} acting charades, {{m|en|dumb charades}} dumb charades Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} charades (uncountable)
  1. 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. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Games Synonyms (game): acting charades, dumb charades [obsolete] Translations (game): xarada [feminine] (Catalan), 比手畫腳 (Chinese Mandarin), 比手画脚 (zbǐshǒuhuàjiǎo) (Chinese Mandarin), šarády [feminine, plural] (Czech), pantomiimi (Finnish), mime [feminine] (French), Scharade [feminine] (German), pantomimisches Ratespiel [neuter] (German), kitalálós játék (Hungarian), most mutasd meg (Hungarian), シャレード (sharēdo) (Japanese), ジェスチャーゲーム (jesuchā gēmu) (Japanese), پانتومیم (pântomim) (Persian), kalambury [masculine, plural] (Polish), mímica [feminine] (Portuguese), шара́да (šaráda) [feminine] (Russian), charad [common-gender] (Swedish), levande charad [common-gender] (Swedish), sessiz sinema (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-charades-en-noun-GX5KB~iL Disambiguation of Games: 17 83 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English pluralia tantum Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 93 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 9 91 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 11 89 Disambiguation of English pluralia tantum: 42 58

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