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farces

farces is the plural of farce.

farces is the third-person singular simple present indicative of farce.

Meaning of farce

Noun

farce (countable and uncountable, plural farces)

  1. (uncountable) A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.
  2. (countable) A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor.
    • The farce that we saw last night had us laughing and shaking our heads at the same time.
  3. (uncountable) A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.
    • The first month of labor negotiations was a farce.
  4. (uncountable) A ridiculous or empty show.
    • The United States, he declared, was "a farce controlled by dirty, hook-nosed, circumcised Jew bastards."2019, Stephanie Butnick, Liel Leibovitz, Mark Oppenheimer, The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia - From Abraham to Zabar's and Everything in Between
  5. (countable) An elaborate lie.
  6. Forcemeat, stuffing.

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Questions about farces

What is farces the plural of?
Farces is the plural of farce.

Words near farces in the dictionary

  1. farcemeat
  2. farcemeats
  3. farcement
  4. farcements
  5. farceness
  6. farces
  7. Farcet
  8. farcetta
  9. farcettas
  10. farceur
  11. farceurs

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