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Meaning of Charades | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

A game in which each player acts out a word or phrase, usually based on puns of each syllable and without speaking, for the others to guess.

uncountable

Equivalents

العربية الحزورات
Bosanski шарада
Català xarada
Español charadas
Suomi pantomiimi
Français charades mime
Hrvatski шарада
Português mímica
Русский шарада
Српски шарада

Examples

“[…] it looked like a house where they played charades, where there would be long streamers of evergreen and dozens of wreaths of holly at Christmas-time, where there were tearful, happy weddings and great throwings of rice after little brides […]”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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