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anti-episodes

anti-episodes is the plural of anti-episode.

Meaning of anti-episode

Noun

anti-episode (usually uncountable, plural anti-episodes)

  1. (rare, usually) A narrative installment that intentionally subverts the standard format, pacing, or dramatic structure of a series.
    • Pezard has acceded to the calls of those critics who, interpreting as erroneous all of the declarations that pass the lips of the cleric, read the canto as an anti-episode, seeking in it their natural allies at least as far as their insistence on the intellectual understanding of Brunetto's sinful...1998, Allen Mandelbaum, Anthony Oldcorn, Charles Ross (editors), Inferno, Lectura Dantis, page 207

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Questions about anti-episodes

What is anti-episodes the plural of?
Anti-episodes is the plural of anti-episode.

Words near anti-episodes in the dictionary

  1. anti-environmentalism
  2. anti-environmentalist
  3. anti-environmentalists
  4. anti-epidemic
  5. anti-episode
  6. anti-episodes
  7. anti-establishment
  8. anti-establishmentarian
  9. anti-establishmentarianism
  10. anti-European
  11. anti-Europeanism

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