different between joke vs story

English

Etymology

From Latin iocus (“joke, jest, pastime”), from Proto-Italic *jokos (“word, (playful?) saying”), from Proto-Indo-European *yokos (“word, utterance”), from ultimate root Proto-Indo-European *yek- (“to speak, utter”) (of which distant cognates include Proto-Celtic *yextis (“language”) (Breton yezh (“language”) and Welsh iaith (“language”)) and German Beichte (“confession”)). Cognate with French jouer, Italian giocare, Portuguese jogar, Spanish juego and jugar, and Romanian juca.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d???k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d?o?k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

joke (plural jokes)

1. An amusing story.
   • 1708, John Gay, Wine

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

2. Something said or done for amusement, not in seriousness.

   It was a joke!
3. (figuratively) The root cause or main issue, especially an unexpected one
4. (figuratively) A laughably worthless thing or person; a sham.

   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 Thesaurus:joke

Coordinate terms

• comedy
• limerick
• parody
• pun

Derived terms

Related terms

• jocular

Descendants

• ? Danish: joke
• ? French: joke
• ? Persian: ????
• ? Japanese: ????, ? Japanese: ??
• ? Welsh: jôc

Translations

Verb

joke (third-person singular simple present jokes, present participle joking, simple past and past participle joked)

1. (intransitive) To do or say something for amusement rather than seriously.

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

2. (intransitive, followed by with) To dupe in a friendly manner for amusement; to mess with, play with.

   Relax, man, I'm just joking with you.

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

   to joke a comrade

Related terms

• joker

Translations

See also

• jeer
• mock

Anagrams

• ojek

Danish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English joke.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?d?j?w??]

Noun

joke c (singular definite joken, plural indefinite jokes)

1. joke

Inflection

Synonyms

• spøg
• vits
• vittighed

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English joke.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?d?j?w???], (imperative) IPA^(key): [?d?j?w???]

Verb

joke (past tense jokede, past participle joket)

1. joke

Inflection

Synonyms

• spøge

French

Etymology

From English joke.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?ok/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /d?o?k/

Noun

joke f (plural jokes)

1. (Louisiana, Quebec) joke

Derived terms

• faire une joke

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st??.?i/
• Rhymes: -???i

Etymology 1

From Middle English storie, storye, from Anglo-Norman estorie, from Latin historia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (historí?, “learning through research”), from ??????? (historé?, “to research, inquire (and) record”), from ????? (híst?r, “the knowing, wise one”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, know”). Doublet of history and storey.

Alternative forms

• storie (obsolete)

Noun

story (plural stories)

1. A sequence of real or fictional events; or, an account of such a sequence.

   Synonym: tome

   • 1673, William Temple, An Essay upon the Advancement of Trade in Ireland

     it must be exploded for fabulous, with other relics of ancient story.

   • June 1861, Edinburgh Review, The Kingdom of Italy

     Venice, with its unique city and its impressive story

2. A lie, fiction.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:lie

3. (US, colloquial, usually pluralized) A soap opera.

   Synonym: serial

   • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things

     He stood on the doorstep for a minute, listening for sounds inside the house — a radio, a TV tuned to one of the stories […]

4. (obsolete) History.
   • 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:

     […] who is so unread or so uncatechis'd in story, that hath not heard of many sects refusing books as a hindrance, and preserving their doctrine unmixt for many ages, only by unwritt'n traditions.

5. A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account.

   Synonym: narrative

6. (social media) A chronological collection of pictures or short videos published by a user on an application or website that is typically only available for a short period.

Usage notes

• (soap opera): Popularized in the 1950s, when soap operas were often billed as "continuing stories", the term "story" to describe a soap opera fell into disuse by the 21st century and is now used chiefly among older people and in rural areas. Other English-speaking countries used the term at its zenith as a "loaned" word from the United States.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Welsh: stori

Translations

Verb

story (third-person singular simple present stories, present participle storying, simple past and past participle storied)

1. To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about.
   • 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick

     It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high.

Etymology 2

Probably as etymology 1, since historia already had this meaning in medieval Anglo-Latin. An alternative suggestion derives it from Old French *estoree (“a thing built, a building”), from estoree (“built”), feminine past participle of estorer (“to build”), from Latin instauro (“to construct, build, erect”).

Alternative forms

• storey (UK)

Noun

story (plural stories)

1. (obsolete) A building or edifice.
2. (chiefly US) A floor or level of a building; a storey.

   Synonyms: floor, level

   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, chapter I:

     The lower story of the market-house was open on all four of its sides to the public square.

3. (typography) Alternative form of storey

Translations

Usage notes

See storey.

References

Anagrams

• ryots, stroy, tyros

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French estoree, past participle of estorer. Alternatively, the same word as storie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?ri?(?)/, /?st??ri?(?)/

Noun

story (plural storyes) (rare)

1. A level of a building.
2. A line of paddles on a ship.

Descendants

• English: story, storey

References

• “st?r?(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-05.

Etymology 2

From Old French estorie, estoire.

Verb

story

1. Alternative form of storie