different between jokes vs comedy

English

Pronunciation

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

Noun

jokes

1. plural of joke

Adjective

jokes (comparative more jokes, superlative most jokes)

1. (Britain, slang) Really good.
   • 2008, "Zetsu", Floaters and gravity (on newsgroup sci.med.vision)

     Andrew VS Neil and Mike is totally jokes! I love it when Andrew gets pissed, lol. It's so cool!

   • July 2012, Lily Allen, quoted in the Huffington Post [3]

     Dappy's new tune is jokes, in a good way. Thoroughly entertaining and insightful which is more than I can say for most things on the radio.

2. (Britain, slang) funny or entertaining.

   Man, that video is bare jokes!

References

• The Guardian, 2007 [4]

Verb

jokes

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of joke

Anagrams

• ojeks

English

Alternative forms

• comedie (archaic, often affected as such for humorous effect)
• comœdie (obsolete)
• comœdy (archaic)

Etymology

First attested in 1374. From Old French comedie, from Latin c?moedia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (k?m?idía), from ????? (kômos, “revel, carousing”) + either ??? (?id?, “song”) or ?????? (aoidós, “singer, bard”), both from ????? (aeíd?, “I sing”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?m?di/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?m?di/
• Hyphenation: com?e?dy

Noun

comedy (countable and uncountable, plural comedies)

1. (countable, historical) A choric song of celebration or revel, especially in Ancient Greece.
2. (countable) A light, amusing play with a happy ending.
3. (countable, Medieval Europe) A narrative poem with an agreeable ending (e.g., The Divine Comedy).
4. (countable, drama) A dramatic work that is light and humorous or satirical in tone.
5. (drama) The genre of such works.
6. (uncountable) Entertainment composed of jokes, satire, or humorous performance.

   Why would you be watching comedy when there are kids starving right now?

7. The art of composing comedy.
8. (countable) A humorous event.

Antonyms

• drama
• tragedy

Derived terms

Related terms

• comic
• ode

Translations

References

• comedy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• comedy at OneLook Dictionary Search