Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

capade

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ca-pade
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An exhibition or event, usually for entertainment.

noun

Example Sentences

"A feature of "Horse-capades" will be the appearance of horses and chariots used in the Academy award winning motion picture "Ben-Hur.""
"Al Neuharth, the founder of USA Today, who has crisscrossed the world as a "special correspondent" on his BusCapade and JetCapade"
"Walt Disney announced that it was recalling 3.4 million copies of the newly remastered video version of The Rescuers, its 1977 animated mice-capade."
"In September 1951, two Catskills—style comedy shows, Bagels and Yox and Mickey Katz's Borscht Capades opened on Broadway."
"I've wondered what happened when the little boy ran home and told his mom about his lunch-capade."
"And you don't think it's inconsistent for the leader of a religion to indulge in sexcapades with porn stars and watch pornographic films in his spare time?"

Etymology

From Ice Capades, a skating entertainment show, the name of which is a pun on escapade.

Inflected Forms

capades (plural)

Derived Forms

sexcapade

Questions

What does capade mean?: An exhibition or event, usually for entertainment.
Where does capade come from?: From Ice Capades, a skating entertainment show, the name of which is a pun on escapade.

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