Definitions for masquerade

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masquerade mas·quer·ade

Spelling: [mas-kuh-reyd]

IPA: /ˌmæs kəˈreɪd/

Masquerade is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 22 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 462 anagrams from letters in masquerade (aadeemqrsu).

Definitions for masquerade

noun

1. a party, dance, or other festive gathering of persons wearing masks and other disguises, and often elegant, historical, or fantastic costumes.
2. a costume or disguise worn at such a gathering.
3. false outward show; façade; pretense:
4. activity, existence, etc., under false pretenses:

verb (used without object)

1. to go about under false pretenses or a false character; assume the character of; give oneself out to be:
2. to disguise oneself.
3. to take part in a masquerade.

Origin of masquerade

1580-90; earlier masquerada, mascarado, pseudo-Spanish forms of Middle French mascarade Upper Italian mascherada; see mask, -ade¹

Examples for masquerade

Are you dressed for a masquerade, and is this a time to go masked?

Tell me the meaning of this masquerade; and why you have attempted so desperate an adventure?

And it was my fate to hear all this last night at the masquerade.

He was supposed to come back to “masquerade the relationship,” but no such luck.

And then too, Madame, we must try to help Cléonte's plan by supporting his masquerade.

He escorts her to masquerade parties, takes her sailing on his yacht, force-feeds her oysters.

And it says something depressing about our country that it is permitted to masquerade as the former.

They masquerade as intellectual contests, but are really just showcases for rhetorical cleverness and public charisma.

It builds to a masquerade ball, in which Not Harry and the women don masks and commence flirting.

Whatever the motive for his masquerade, it was not to attract anything feminine.