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Escapade vs Getaway - What's the difference?

escapade | getaway |

As nouns the difference between escapade and getaway

is that escapade is a daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against convention while getaway is a means of escape.

As an adjective getaway is

pertaining to an escape, as in a vehicle or plans.

escapade

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against convention.
  • * 1724 , :
    • The Manner of living among the Portugueze here is, with the utmost Frugality and Temperance. . . . The best of them (excepting the Governor now and then) neither pay nor receive any Visits of Escapade or Recreation.
  • * 1816 , , The Antiquary - Volume II , ch. 9:
    • [Nobody] stood more confounded than Oldbuck at this sudden escapade of his nephew. "Is the devil in him," was his first exclamation, "to go to disturb the brute?"
  • * 1918 , , Piccadilly Jim , ch. 1:
    • He is always doing something to make himself notorious. There was that breach-of-promise case, and that fight at the political meeting, and his escapades at Monte Carlo.
  • * 2011 March 4, , " The Adjustment Bureau''" (film review), ''Time (retrieved 23 March 2014):
    • He seems on the verge of winning the New York Senate election when the New York Post runs a photo of David’s exposed butt in a mooning escapade from his college days.

    getaway

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (adj) get-away

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A means of escape.
  • The effecting of an escape.
  • A vacation or holiday or the destination for one.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Pertaining to an escape, as in a vehicle or plans.
    • They'd been discussing their getaway plans for weeks.

    See also

    * get away

    Anagrams

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