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CHARADE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Making a false outward show
Example:
a beggar's masquerade of wealth
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("charade" is a kind of...):
feigning; pretence; pretending; pretense; simulation (the act of giving a false appearance)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A word acted out in an episode of the game of charades
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("charade" is a kind of...):
word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)
Holonyms ("charade" is a part of...):
charades (guessing game in which one player pantomimes a word or phrase for others to guess)
Context examples:
But here is my father coming: you will not object to my reading the charade to him.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Where would be the use of his bringing us a charade made by a friend upon a mermaid or a shark?
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
An excellent charade indeed! and very much to the purpose.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
This is saying very plainly—'Pray, Miss Smith, give me leave to pay my addresses to you. Approve my charade and my intentions in the same glance.'
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I do think it is, without exception, the best charade I ever read.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Oh! Miss Woodhouse, what a pity that I must not write this beautiful charade into my book!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Depend upon it, he would not like to have his charade slighted, much better than his passion.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
But take it away, and all appropriation ceases, and a very pretty gallant charade remains, fit for any collection.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
He called for a few moments, just to leave a piece of paper on the table containing, as he said, a charade, which a friend of his had addressed to a young lady, the object of his admiration, but which, from his manner, Emma was immediately convinced must be his own.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
This charade!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
