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maskerader

maskerader is the archaic form of masquerader.

Meaning of masquerader

Noun

masquerader (plural masqueraders)

  1. One who masquerades; a person wearing a mask or disguise.
    • Streetlife serenader
      Never sang on stages
      Needs no orchestration
      Melody comes easy
      Midnight masquerader
      Shopping center heroes
      Child of Eisenhower
      New world celebrator
      […]
      Midnight masqueraders
      Working hard for wages
      Need no vast arrangements
      To do their harmonizing1974, Billy Joel, “Streetlife Serenader”, in Streetlife Serenade, performed by Billy Joel
    Synonyms:
    masker

Forms of maskerader

pluralmaskeraders

Questions about maskerader

What is maskerader the archaic form of?
Maskerader is the archaic form of masquerader.

Words near maskerader in the dictionary

  1. Maskelynes
  2. maskelynite
  3. maskelynites
  4. masker
  5. maskerade
  6. maskerader
  7. maskeraders
  8. maskerades
  9. maskered
  10. maskeries
  11. maskering

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Adapted from Wiktionary: maskerader (page history and authors); masquerader (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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