Episode

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An incident or event that is part of a progression or a larger sequence: "South Africa may remain one of history's most tragic episodes” ( Bayard Rustin).
  • n. One of a series of related events in the course of a continuous account. See Synonyms at occurrence.
  • n. A portion of a narrative that relates an event or a series of connected events and forms a coherent story in itself; an incident: an episode in a picaresque novel.
  • n. A separate part of a serialized work, such as a novel or play.
  • n. A separate program that is part of a television or radio series.
  • n. A section of a classic Greek tragedy that occurs between two choric songs.
  • n. Music A passage between statements of a main subject or theme, as in a rondo or fugue.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An incident or action standing out by itself, but more or less connected with a complete series of events.
  • n. An installment of a drama told in parts, as in a TV series.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A separate incident, story, or action, introduced for the purpose of giving a greater variety to the events related; an incidental narrative, or digression, separable from the main subject, but naturally arising from it.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A separate incident, story, or action introduced in a poem, narrative, or other writing for the purpose of giving greater variety; an incidental narrative or digression separable from the main subject, but naturally arising from it.
  • n. An incident or action standing out by itself, but more or less connected with a complete series of events: as, an episode of the war; an episode in one's life.
  • n. In music, an intermediate or digressive section of a composition, especially in a contrapuntal work, like a fugue.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a happening that is distinctive in a series of related events
  • n. a part of a broadcast serial
  • n. film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie
  • n. a brief section of a literary or dramatic work that forms part of a connected series
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Form
    episodical    episodic   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
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    Television    Celebrity   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    incident    occurrence    tale    drama    adventure    encounter    novel    aspect    theme    interview