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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
jape is a noun meaning "a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter". It carries one recorded sense.
a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter
“he told a very funny joke”
“he knows a million gags”
“thanks for the laugh”
“he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest”
“even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for jape come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.