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noun
- 1. an absurd pretence intended to create a pleasant or respectable appearance: "talk of unity was nothing more than a charade"
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CHARADE definition: 1. an act or event that is clearly false: 2. a team game in which each member tries to communicate…. Learn more.
The meaning of CHARADE is a word represented in riddling verse or by picture, tableau, or dramatic action (such as intrusion represented by depiction of inn, true, and shun). How to use charade in a sentence.
CHARADE meaning: 1. an act or event that is clearly false: 2. a team game in which each member tries to communicate…. Learn more.
If you describe someone's actions as a charade, you mean that their actions are so obviously false that they do not convince anyone.
Charade definition: a game in which the players are typically divided into two teams, members of which take turns at acting out in pantomime a word, phrase, title, etc., which the members of their own team must guess.. See examples of CHARADE used in a sentence.
noun. /ʃəˈrɑːd/. /ʃəˈreɪd/. [countable] a situation in which people pretend that something is true when it clearly is not synonym pretence. Their whole marriage had been a charade—they had never loved each other.
a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way. synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty. see more. see less. type of: caricature, imitation, impersonation.
CHARADE definition: a situation that is clearly false, but where people behave as if it is true or serious: . Learn more.
A word or phrase acted out or described as in verse, for others to guess. A game in which two teams compete to see which can more quickly guess a group of words or phrases chosen by the other team and acted out in pantomime, often syllable by syllable, by the members of their own.
Definition of charade noun in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
