"charade" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ʃəˈɹɑːd/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ʃəˈɹeɪd/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-charade.wav Forms: charades [plural]
enPR: shərädʹ [Received-Pronunciation], shərādʹ [General-American] Rhymes: -ɑːd Etymology: From French charade, charrade (“prattle, idle conversation; a kind of riddle”), probably from Occitan charrada (“conversation; chatter”), from charrar (“to chat; to chatter”) + -ada. As a round of the game, originally a clipping of acting charade but now usually understood and formed as a back-formation from charades. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|charade}} French charade, {{der|en|oc|charrada||conversation; chatter}} Occitan charrada (“conversation; chatter”), {{clipping|en|acting charade|nocap=1}} clipping of acting charade, {{back-formation|en|charades|nocap=1}} back-formation from charades Head templates: {{en-noun}} charade (plural charades)
  1. (literature, archaic) A genre of riddles where the clues to the answer are descriptions or puns on its syllables, with a final clue to the whole. Tags: archaic Categories (topical): Literature
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  2. (uncommon) A single round of the game charades, an acted form of the earlier riddles. Tags: uncommon Synonyms: acted charade, dumb charade [obsolete] Translations (acted form of the earlier riddles): Scharade [feminine] (German), pantomimisches Rätsel [neuter] (German), charad [common-gender] (Swedish), levande charad [common-gender] (Swedish)
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  3. (obsolete) A play resembling the game charades, particularly due to poor acting. Tags: obsolete
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  4. A deception or pretense, originally an absurdly obvious one but now in general use. Synonyms: farce, sham, fake Translations (absurd deception): farso (Esperanto), Scharade [feminine] (German), Farce [feminine] (German), Affentheater [neuter] (German), Affenzirkus [masculine] (German), unwürdiges Schauspiel [neuter] (German), Schmierenkomödie [feminine] (German), charada [feminine] (Portuguese), farsa [feminine] (Portuguese)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (riddle): xarada [feminine] (Catalan), ŝarado (Esperanto), charade [feminine] (French), Scharade [feminine] (German), Silbenrätsel [neuter] (German), Versrätsel [neuter] (German), sarád (Hungarian), sciarada [feminine] (Italian), sharada [feminine] (Ladino), indivinansa (english: Turkey) [feminine] (Ladino), charrada [feminine] (Occitan), charada [feminine] (Portuguese), шара́да (šaráda) [feminine] (Russian), charada [feminine] (Spanish), charad [common-gender] (Swedish)
Disambiguation of 'riddle': 43 42 7 8

Verb

IPA: /ʃəˈɹɑːd/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ʃəˈɹeɪd/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-charade.wav Forms: charades [present, singular, third-person], charading [participle, present], charaded [participle, past], charaded [past]
enPR: shərädʹ [Received-Pronunciation], shərādʹ [General-American] Rhymes: -ɑːd Etymology: From French charade, charrade (“prattle, idle conversation; a kind of riddle”), probably from Occitan charrada (“conversation; chatter”), from charrar (“to chat; to chatter”) + -ada. As a round of the game, originally a clipping of acting charade but now usually understood and formed as a back-formation from charades. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|charade}} French charade, {{der|en|oc|charrada||conversation; chatter}} Occitan charrada (“conversation; chatter”), {{clipping|en|acting charade|nocap=1}} clipping of acting charade, {{back-formation|en|charades|nocap=1}} back-formation from charades Head templates: {{en-verb}} charade (third-person singular simple present charades, present participle charading, simple past and past participle charaded)
  1. To act out a charade (of); to gesture; to pretend. Derived forms: charader
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      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "riddle",
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      "word": "xarada"
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      "code": "de",
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        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Scharade"
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      "code": "de",
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        "neuter"
      ],
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    },
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      "word": "Versrätsel"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
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    },
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
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      "word": "sciarada"
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      "word": "indivinansa"
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      "code": "oc",
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      "word": "charrada"
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
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      "code": "ru",
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      "word": "шара́да"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "charada"
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      "word": "farso"
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        "feminine"
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          "ref": "1977 April 30, David Holland, John Rechy, “The Politics of 'The Sexual Outlaw'”, in Gay Community News, page 10:",
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  "subsection": "verb",
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