Dictionary Entry
masquerade
masquerade is a 10-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An assembly of persons wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions. Face value is 22 in Scrabble and 24 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 22 · Words With Friends 24 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
An assembly of persons wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions.
- 2noun
A dramatic performance by actors in masks; a mask. See 1st Mask, 4.
- 3noun
Acting or living under false pretenses; concealment of something by a false or unreal show; pretentious show; disguise.
- 4noun
A Spanish diversion on horseback.
- 5intransitive verb
To assemble in masks; to take part in a masquerade.
- 6intransitive verb
To frolic or disport in disquise; to make a pretentious show of being what one is not.
- 7transitive verb
To conceal with masks; to disguise.
- 8noun
making a false outward show
"a beggar's masquerade of wealth"
- 9noun
a costume worn as a disguise at a masquerade party
- 10noun
a party of guests wearing costumes and masks
- 11verb
pretend to be someone or something that you are not
"he is masquerading as an expert on the internet"
"This silly novel is masquerading as a serious historical treaty"
- 12verb
take part in a masquerade
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