CHARADE


Meaning of CHARADE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ʃərɑ:d, AM -reɪd ]

( charades)

1.

If you describe someone’s actions as a charade , you mean that their actions are so obviously false that they do not convince anyone.

I wondered why he had gone through the elaborate charade...

The UN at the moment is still trying to maintain the charade of neutrality.

N-COUNT : usu sing [ disapproval ]

2.

Charades is a game for teams of players in which one team acts a word or phrase, syllable by syllable, until other players guess the whole word or phrase.

N-UNCOUNT

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