ESCAPADE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does escapade mean? 

• ESCAPADE (noun)
  The noun ESCAPADE has 2 senses:

1. a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)

2. any carefree episode

  Familiarity information: ESCAPADE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ESCAPADE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

adventure; dangerous undertaking; escapade; risky venture

Hypernyms ("escapade" is a kind of...):

labor; project; task; undertaking (any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any carefree episode

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

escapade; lark

Hypernyms ("escapade" is a kind of...):

diversion; recreation (an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "escapade"):

sexcapade (a sexual escapade; an illicit affair)

 Context examples 

This much we can say: that it is no ordinary love escapade.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“An escapade of a week or so.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I came off, too, to report the only exclusive information that is given to-day regarding the strange escapade at the Zoo.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

To me he was cordial and kind, saying nothing of my escapade either in the way of blame or praise.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

She had hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you about one of the servants’ escapade with her wooden-legged lover, which was all perfectly true.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All the time I was washing out the block house, and then washing up the things from dinner, this disgust and envy kept growing stronger and stronger, till at last, being near a bread-bag, and no one then observing me, I took the first step towards my escapade and filled both pockets of my coat with biscuit.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)