1 [C] a situation in which people pretend that sth is true when it clearly is not:
Their whole marriage had been a charade-they had never loved each other.
2 (charades) [U] a game in which one player acts out the syllables of a word or title and the other players try to guess what it is:
Let's play charades.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for charade is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is charade a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, charade is tagged as noun.
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