English-French translations for play on words

• calembour
• jeu de mots
  Voici un bien beau jeu de mots, Synchronised Armed Forces Europe, mais ce concept n'existe tout simplement pas. This is a nice play on words - Synchronised Armed Forces Europe - but this concept simply does not exist.
  Il s'agit d'un jeu de mots cripté pour suggérer que le genre préféré de Swann n'était peut-être pas le genre féminin. This is a coded play on words to suggest that possibly Swann's preferred gender was not in fact the feminine gender.

Definition of play on words

• A pun, or similar humorous use of language such as a double entendre

Related words

• play money
• play along
• display console
• play someone off against someone
• play one's cards right
• play ones part
• play second fiddle
• playing one's cards close to one's chest
• massively multiplayer online role-playing game