About The Word Episode

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Episode

Episode Meaning & Definition
Episode Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Episode?

[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
[n] a part of a broadcast serial
[n] a happening that is distinctive in a series of related events

Synonyms | Synonyms for Episode: installment | instalment | sequence

Related Terms | Find terms related to Episode: action | adventure | affair | anagnorisis | angle | architectonics | architecture | argument | aside | atmosphere | background | broken thread | brokenness | bypath | byway | catastrophe | chapter | characterization | circumstance | color | complication | continuity | contrivance | denouement | departure | design | development | deviation | device | digression | disconnectedness | disconnection | discontinuance | discontinuation | discontinuity | discontinuousness | discreteness | discursion | disjunction | event | excursion | excursus | experience | fable | fact | falling action | fitfulness | gimmick | go | hap | happening | happenstance | incident | incoherence | incompleteness | infix | injection | insert | insertion | insinuation | intercalation | interjection | interlineation | interlocution | intermittence | interpolation | introduction | irregularity | line | local color | matter | matter of fact | mood | motif | movement | mythos | non sequitur | noncontinuance | nonlinearity | nonseriality | nonuniformity | obiter dictum | occasion | occurrence | parenthesis | part | particular | peripeteia | phenomenon | plan | plot | reality | recognition | remark | rising action | scene | scheme | secondary plot | side path | side remark | slant | story | structure | subject | subplot | switch | thematic development | theme | thing | tone | topic | tossing-in | turn of events | twist

See Also | broadcast | chapter | cliffhanger | drama | dramatic event | film | flick | happening | idyll | incident | motion picture | movie | moving picture | natural event | occurrence | photographic film | pic | picture | picture show | program | programme | section | serial | series | subdivision

Episode In Webster's Dictionary

\Ep"i*sode\, n. [Gr. ? a coming in besides, ? episode; ? into, besides + ? a coming in, ? into + ? way, cf. Skr. sad to go: cf. F. ['e]pisode.] (Rhet.) 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.

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