Escapade vs Joke - What's the difference?

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Escapade is a related term of joke.

As a noun escapade

is a daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against convention.

As a proper noun joke is

, diminutive of jo.

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.

joke

English

Noun

(en noun)

An amusing story.

* Gay

Or witty joke our airy senses moves / To pleasant laughter.

Something said or done for amusement, not in seriousness.

It was a joke !

* Alexander Pope

Enclose whole downs in walls, 'tis all a joke .

(figuratively) The root cause or main issue, especially an unexpected one

(figuratively) A worthless thing or person.

Your effort at cleaning your room is a joke .

The president was a joke .

Usage notes

* Adjectives often applied to "joke": old, bad, inside, poor, silly, funny, lame, hilarious, stupid, offensive.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* bad joke * standing joke * knock-knock joke * light bulb joke * practical joke

Coordinate terms

* comedy * limerick * parody * pun

Verb

(jok)

To do or say something for amusement rather than seriously.

I didn’t mean what I said — I was only joking .

(dated) To make merry with; to make jokes upon; to rally.

to joke a comrade