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episode

[ep-uh-sohd, -zohd]

noun

an incident in the course of a series of events, in a person's life or experience, etc.

an incident, scene, etc., within a narrative, usually fully developed and either integrated within the main story or digressing from it.

one of a number of loosely connected, but usually thematically related, scenes or stories constituting a literary work.

epeisodion.

Music. an intermediate or digressive passage, especially in a contrapuntal composition.

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Movies, Radio, and Television. any one of the separate productions that constitute a serial.

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Origin:
1670–80; < Greek epeisódion addition, episode, noun use of neuter of epeisódios coming in addition, equivalent to ep- ep- + eísod(os) entrance (eis- into + (h)odós road, way) + -ios adj. suffix

Synonyms
1. happening. See event.

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Example Sentences

Episode shot in black and white, in which they're all being interviewed for a television broadcast.

But the episode does serve as a timely reminder of one thing that is sometimes forgotten.

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Episode shot in black and white, in which they're all being interviewed for a television broadcast.

But the episode does serve as a timely reminder of one thing that is sometimes forgotten.

Web sites mentioned on this episode include wwwjplnasagov.

The show borrows heavily from other sci-fi sources and the first episode was heavy on exposition.

The whole episode reminded me how difficult it can be to notice small, often camouflaged creepy-crawlies on your plants.

The discovery of another recovered episode used to happen every month or two.

Shell's timing draws attention to what a sorry episode it has been.

Web sites mentioned on this episode include wwwanlgov.

She has to watch an episode every morning before school.

Watch the video below for a preview of tonight's episode.

The episode has exposed an enormous communications gap between the two countries.

Jean said the piglet might make a cameo in a future episode.

But the junta might easily have avoided the whole episode.

She was a guest on the first episode of this podcast over two years ago.

There are two lessons one might draw from this unfunny episode.

We will be back with the full episode early next week.

But this defining episode was not the unalloyed personal triumph that it appears.

The episode might also be a badly needed catalyst for change.

Volatility, on the other hand, points to an episode that's a bit worse than normal.

Last week's episode featured a fascinating issue at the intersection of economics and psychology.

Many think the episode offers further proof that journalists and publicists get along rather too cosily.

The outrage which the episode has provoked is profound.

In the last episode he shields them in return for their support for some watered-down reforms.

The episode played on existing disenchantment with the foreign ministry.

Just this first episode really got at a lot of the.

Compared to the dinosaurs in episode one, the pterosaurs which swoop through episode two look considerably better.

Since the show is so complex that missing one episode will leave.

Episode shot entirely from the point of view of a soldier shot in.

It's part of the opening montage of every episode and in plenty of skits throughout the season.

Ditch the lovely waifs for an episode and see some truly practical design.

Match the characters to the clinical descriptions of their terminal separations, noted by episode number.

It may be that our current dilemma is another episode in a longish cyclical history.

But the episode does, perhaps, hint at how seriously he expects his proposed solution to be taken.

In fact, that premise became a recurring theme throughout that particular episode.

With that, the episode became a scholarly footnote in media history.

In this financial crisis, each episode in the saga seems even more potent than the last.

But the episode did lasting harm to the credibility of its macroeconomic stewardship.

The episode has rattled foreigners who had been looking forward to investing in a less repressive political atmosphere.

But the episode has no doubt bruised pride at a company used to receiving acclaim in the press and online.

But the episode has exposed divisions in angels' ranks.

Others see it as a truly shameful episode of clerical fascism.

He has boasted that it is possible to make five episodes of his show for the price of one episode of a police drama.

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World English Dictionary

episode (ˈɛpɪˌsəʊd)

—n
1.	an incident, event, or series of events
2.	any one of the sections into which a serialized novel or radio or television programme is divided
3.	an incident, sequence, or scene that forms part of a narrative but may be a digression from the main story
4.	(in ancient Greek tragedy) a section between two choric songs
5.	music a contrasting section between statements of the subject, as in a fugue or rondo

[C17: from Greek epeisodion something added, from epi- (in addition) + eisodios coming in, from eis- in + hodos road]

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Word Origin & History

episode

1678, from Gk. epeisodion "addition," originally neut. of epeisodios "coming in besides," from epi- "in addition" + eisodos "a coming in, entrance" (from eis "into" + hodos "way"). Originally commentary between two choric songs in Gk. tragedy; extended by 1679 to "any incidental narrative or digression

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in a story, poem, etc." Sense of "outstanding incident, experience" first recorded in Eng. 1773.

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