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CHARADES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Guessing game in which one player pantomimes a word or phrase for others to guess
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("charades" is a kind of...):
guessing game (a game in which participants compete to identify some obscurely indicated thing)
Meronyms (parts of "charades"):
charade (a word acted out in an episode of the game of charades)