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# masquerade

«masquerade» in Mova's school dictionary: **a party where people wear masks and costumes** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (masquerade, masquerades); verb (masquerade, masquerades, masqueraded, masquerading)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A masquerade is a party where people wear masks and costumes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/masquerade/#m1)

2) To masquerade is to pretend to be someone you are not. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/masquerade/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

people in strange costumes or disguises in a tale, or a pretence that hides the truth

### examples

- What odd figures! They must be returning from some masquerade. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/masquerade/#x1)
- The good folks come probably from a masquerade! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/masquerade/#x2)
- The thief masqueraded as a doctor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/masquerade/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «masquerade» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/masquerade/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.