charades

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.

Noun

charades

1. plural of charade, particularly
   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.
      • 1909, Booth Tarkington, Beasley's Christmas Party

        […] it looked like a house where they played charades, where there would be long streamers of evergreen and dozens of wreaths of holly at Christmas-time, where there were tearful, happy weddings and great throwings of rice after little brides […]

Synonyms

• (game): acting charades, dumb charades (obsolete)

Translations

game

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 詩謎／诗谜 (zh), 诗谜 (zh) (shīmí), 謝拉德／谢拉德, 谢拉德 (xièlādé), 字謎遊戲／字谜游戏, 字谜游戏 (zìmí yóuxì)

• Czech: šarády f pl
• Finnish: pantomiimi (fi)
• French: charade (fr) f
• German: Scharade (de) f, pantomimisches Ratespiel n
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• Japanese: シャレード (sharēdo), ジェスチャーゲーム (jesuchā gēmu)
• Persian: پانتومیم (fa) (pântomim)
• Portuguese: mímica (pt) f
• Russian: шара́да (ru) f (šaráda)
• Turkish: sessiz sinema (tr)

Anagrams

• hard case, hardcase