Masquerade

Definitions: Masquerade

Masquerade

Noun

1. A party of guests wearing costumes and masks.

2. A costume worn as a disguise at a masquerade party.

3. Making a false outward show; "a beggar's masquerade of wealth".

Verb

1. Take part in a masquerade.

2. Pretend to be someone or something that you are not; "he is masquerading as the expert on th Internet"; "This silly novel is masquerading as a serious historical treaty".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "masquerade" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Computing

Dream Interpretation

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Synonyms: Masquerade

Ambush

Mask, visor, vizor, disguise, masquerade dress, domino.

Amusement

Dance; hop, reel, rigadoon, saraband, hornpipe, bolero, ballroom dance; minuet, waltz, polka, fox trot, tango, samba, rhumba, twist, stroll, hustle, cha-cha; fandango, cancan; bayadere; breakdown, cake-walk, cornwallis, break dancing; nautch-girl; shindig; skirtdance, stag dance, Virginia reel, square dance; galop, galopade; jig, Irish jig, fling, strathspey; allemande; gavot, gavotte, tarantella; mazurka, morisco, morris dance; quadrille; country dance, folk dance; cotillon, Sir Roger de Coverley; ballet; (drama); ball; bal, bal masque, bal costume; masquerade; Terpsichore.

Clothing

Outfit, equipment, trousseau; uniform, regimentals; continentals; canonicals; livery, gear, harness, turn-out, accouterment, caparison, suit, rigging, trappings, traps, slops, togs, toggery; day wear, night wear, zoot suit; designer clothes; masquerade.

Concealment

Seal of secrecy; screen; disguise; masquerade; masked battery; hiding place; cryptography, steganography; freemasonry.

Deception

Cornish hug; wolf in sheep's clothing; (deceiver); disguise, disguisement; false colors, masquerade, mummery, borrowed plumes; pattes de velours.

Crosswords: Masquerade

We're lost in a masquerade ("This Masquerade"; performing artist: George Benson)

And what they played was a masquerade (Say You, Say Me; performing artist: Lionel Richie)

No more masquerade, you're one lonely star (Take A Bow; performing artist: Madonna)

This masquerade is getting older (Take A Bow; performing artist: Madonna)

The dead start to walk in their masquerade (Thriller; performing artist: Michael Jackson)

Masquerade Party (1974)

Magoo's Masquerade (1957)

Masquerade (1955)

Musical Parade: Tropical Masquerade (1948)

Masquerade in Mexico (1945)

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Books

• Carl's Masquerade (reference)

• Magic the Gathering : Mercadian Masques ( Masquerade Cycle, Book 1 ) (reference)

• Masquerade (reference)

• Masquerade (Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron, Volume 8) (reference)

• Vampire : The Masquerade (Revised Edition) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Masquerade (reference)

• Mirthworm Masquerade (reference)

• Texas Masquerade (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Aram Khachaturian: Masquerade Suite for orchestra No1-5 (reference)

• Khachaturian: Masquerade Suite; Kabalevsky: The Comedians; Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien; Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol / Kondrashin (reference)

• Honky Tonk Masquerade (reference)

• Masquerade (reference)

• Music from the Succubus Club -- Vampire: The Masquerade (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Vampire - The Masquerade (Jewel Case) (reference)

• Vampire: The Masquerade Redemption (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Grand masquerade party.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Expressions using "masquerade": masquerade as ♦ masquerade ball ♦ masquerade costume ♦ masquerade dress. Additional references.

Albanian

Maskaradë (costume ball, pageant), Marr Pjesë Në Maskaradë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏لباس يرتدى للتنكر, ‏حفلة تنكرية, ‏غير (beyond, budge, but, change, commute, fashion, metamorphose, mis, modify, modulate, non, overrun, rehash, renew, reverse, revise, shape, shift, switch, switch over, than, transfer, transpose, turn, un-), ‏تنكر في, ‏تنكر (abjure, deny, deny oneself, disavow, disclaim, disguise, disguise oneself, disown, guy, mask, mockery, renounce, repudiate, travesty), ‏تخفى (go under, lurk, occult), ‏إشترك في حفلة تنكرية (mask). (various references)

Bulgarian 

Придавам Си Лъжлив �'ид, Маскарад (Mummery), Маскирам Се, Участвувам �' Маскарад, Лъжлива �'ъншност, представям се (introduce oneself, present, report). (various references)

Chinese 

化妝舞會 . (various references)

Czech

Maškaráda. (various references)

Danish

maskering (impersonation, masking, mimicking), forklædning (impersonation, mimicking), falsk identitet (impersonation, mimicking), camouflage (impersonation, mimicking). (various references)

Dutch

maskering (drowning, masking). (various references)

Esperanto

maskerado, maskado. (various references)

Farsi 

لباس مبدل (Disguise, Guise), قیافه ظاهری بخوددادن , تغییرقیافه (Disguise, Guise), رقص بانقاب های مضحک وناشناس , به لباس مبدل درامدن , بالماسکه . (various references)

Finnish

tekeytyminen (impersonation, mimicking), naamioituminen (impersonation, masking, mimicking). (various references)

French

Mascarade. (various references)

German

Maskerade (costume, impersonation, masque, masquerading, mimicking). (various references)

Greek 

όεταμφιέζομαι, όεταμφίεση (Mummery), όασκάρεμα, μεταμφίεση (disguise, impersonation, mask, mimicking), χορόσ όασκαράδων. (various references)

Hebrew 

ּ�"עמי�" װ� ים, ׀שף ־סכות. (various references)

Hungarian

maskara (masquerader), komédia (comedy, farce, it is mere acting), képmutatás (cant, disingenuousness, hypocrisy, mendacity), jelmezes mulatság, álarcosbál (fancy-dress ball, masked ball), álarcos mulatság (masquerader), álöltözet (disguise, guise). (various references)

Italian

Mascherata, Mascherarsi (wear a mask), mascheramento (impersonation, masking, mimicking, visor, Vizard, vizor), Travestirsi, impersonificazione (impersonation, mimicking, personation), Finzione (blind, deceit, deceitfulness, feint, fiction, figment, invention, make believe, pretence, pretense, sham, simulation), Fingersi, Farsi Passare Per, Ballo (ball, ballet, dance, dancing, pantomimic dance). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

変装 (disguise), 仮装 (converted, disguise, fancy dress). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かそう (appearance, construction of a house, converted, cremation, disguise, fancy dress, imagination, lower strata, phenomenon, potential, supposition, temporary burial), へ�"そう (disguise, return to sender, sending back). (various references)

Manx

mummeraght (mumming), lhiggey er myr, jannoo breageydys myr, daunse far-eddin (masked ball). (various references)

Pig Latin

asquerademay

Portuguese

Disfarce (camouflage, cloak, cloaking, coloring, colouring, concealment, cover, disguise, disguising, dissimulator, fancy dress, impersonation, mask, mimicking, veil, veiling, window dressing). (various references)

Romanian

Mascaradã (farce, Mummery, pageant), Masca (blanket, conceal, disguise, dissimulate, hide, mask, veil), Travesti (disguise), Farsã (farce, hoax, humbug, interlude, joke, leg pull, low comedy, trick), Costum De Mascaradã, Costum De Bal Mascat (fancy dress), Bal Mascat (costume ball, fancy ball). (various references)

Russian 

Притворяться, Маскарад. (various references)

Scottish

gighis (a masquerade). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

maskarada, učestvovati u maskaradi. (various references)

Spanish

Mascarada (masque, Mummery). (various references)

Swedish

Maskerad (mask, masked). (various references)

Turkish

Maskeli Baloya Katılmak, Maskeli Balo Kostümü, Maskeli Balo (fancy ball, fancy dress ball, masked ball), Taslama (assumption), Sahte Tavır Takınmak, Sahte Tavır (imposture, simulation), Olduğundan Başka Görünmek. (various references)

Turkmen 

maskarad (r). (various references)

Ukranian 

Прикидатися, Маскарад. (various references)

Vietnamese 

trò giả dối, sự giả dạng trò lừa bịp, dạ hội giả trang sự giả trang, buổi khiêu vũ đeo mặt nạ. (various references)

mascarade. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "masquerade": masqueraded, masquerader, masqueraders, masquerades. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Masquerade" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Macquarrie, mascaraed, mascerade, Maskarade, masquarade, masqurade, masqureade. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: admeasure.

-2 letters: marquees, measured.

-3 letters: marauds, marquee, marques, masquer, measure, medusae, quaeres, remudas, resumed, smeared, squamae, squared.

-4 letters: adeems, ameers, amused, amuser, asarum, damars, demure, demurs, dermas, dramas, dreams, edemas, erased, madras, madres, maraud, marque, masque, medusa, merdes, mudras, quaere, quasar, queers, ramees, reamed, remade, remuda, reseau, reseda, resume, reused, seamed, seamer, seared, squama.

+1 letter: masqueraded, masquerader, masquerades.

+2 letters: masqueraders.

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