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Definition of Charades
1. Noun. Player acts out a phrase for others to guess.
Definition of Charades
1. Noun. (plural of charade) ¹
2. Noun. A game in which participants act out a word or phrase for others to guess ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Charades
1. charade [n] - See also: charade
Lexicographical Neighbors of Charades
Literary usage of Charades
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Letters of Horace Walpole: Earl of Orford: Including Numerous Letters by Horace Walpole, John Wright (1842)
"The difficult one:— " charades of all things are the worst, ... Had I any thing
better, I would not send you charades, unless for the name of the author. ..."
2. Anecdote Lives of Wits and Humourists by John Timbs (1872)
"charades AND RIDDLES. Porson delighted in this playful exercise of his ...
The following charades and Riddles (with the solutions,) are quoted from Nos. ..."
3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1891)
"ORIGINAL charades. By LBR BRIGGS, tomo, |i.oo. Fifty or more ingenious and original
chared« in verse form the conten» of this book. ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"ACTED charades. No. VIII. SCENE THE FIRST. ^Exeunt separately. An Apartment in
an Artist's House. SIB GEORGE LUDLOW, MR DELAVAL, a Servant. Delai'ol. ..."
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