Definition of "charades" [charades]

• Plural form of charade. (noun)
• A game in which participants act out a word or phrase without talking for others to guess. (noun)

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• "And they came to the beautiful house and made merry, played "guessing words" -- what we call charades, quite a new thing then -- and it made no end of merriment."
• "When we appear to be no more than holodeck characters, it will be very difficult to maintain charades like dualism."
• "If I don’t get the language right away, it’s okay, charades is cross-cultural"