episode
Syllables: epi·sodeUK/ˈɛp.ɪ.səʊd//ˈɛp.ə.soʊd/
episode noun: a discrete but connected event, situation, or period within a broader sequence, narrative, or life course.
Noun
episode (plural episodes)
- A discrete but connected event, situation, or period within a broader sequence, narrative, or life course.
- It was a most embarrassing episode in my life.
- The Attorney-General, however, had used this episode, which Martin in retrospect had felt to be a blot on the scutcheon, merely to emphasise the intelligence and resource of the prisoner.1935, Francis Beeding [pseudonym; John Palmer], “10/6”, in The Norwich Victims, →OL
- A bounded narrative unit within a television series, constituting a single installment that is structurally discrete yet interrelated with the series as a whole.
- I can't wait till next week’s episode.
- We all know how genius “Kamp Krusty,” “A Streetcar Named Marge,” “Homer The Heretic,” “Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie” and “Mr. Plow” are, but even the relatively unheralded episodes offer wall-to-wall laughs and some of the smartest, darkest, and weirdest gags ever Trojan-horsed into a network...2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): ‘Marge Gets A Job’ (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The A.V. Club
episode meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
episode in Hindi
- instalment of a drama told in parts
- एपिसोड episoḍ, उपकथा upakthā, प्रकरण prakraṇ, कड़ी kaṛī
episode in Tamil
- அதியம், நிகழ்வு, இயல், படலம், காதை, பகுதி
episode in Marathi
- एपिसोड
episode in Urdu
- incident or action connected with a series of events
- وَاقِعَہ vāqi'a, حادِثَہ hādisa
- instalment of a drama told in parts
- قِسْط qist, ایپی سوڈ epī soḍ, حِصَّہ hissa, کَڑی kaṛī
More languagesFewer languages
- episode in Bengali
- পর্ব porbo
- episode in Telugu
- ఉపకథ upakatha
- episode in Malayalam
- സംഭവം, ഉപകഥ, പരമ്പരയിലെ ഓരോ പതിപ്പുകൾ, ലക്കങ്ങൾ
- episode in Kannada
- ಉಪಾಖ್ಯಾನ, ಉಪಕಥೆ, ಪ್ರಸಂಗ, ಘಟನೆ
- episode in Gujarati
- એપિસોડ
- episode in Odia
- ଏପିସୋଡ୍, ଏପିସୋଡ, ଏପିସୋଡ଼
- episode in Nepali
- एपिसोड
- episode in Arabic
- حَادِثَة ḥādiṯa, وَاقِعَة wāqiʕa, حَلْقَة ḥalqa, حَلَقَة ḥalaqa
- episode in Malay
- episod
- episode in Indonesian
- episode
- episode in Thai
- ฉาก chàak, ตอน dtɔɔn, บท bòt
- episode in Vietnamese
- phần, tập
Examples of episode in a sentence
- He had to take a few weeks off school after a dissociative episode.
- They showed episodes of some awful TV show on our flight.
- I watched one episode of that TV series and now I'm hooked.
Synonyms of episode
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Forms of episode
| plural | episodes |
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Origin of episode
From French épisode, from New Latin *epīsodium, from Ancient Greek ἐπεισόδιον (epeisódion, “a parenthetic addition, episode”), neuter of ἐπεισόδιος (epeisódios, “following upon the entrance, coming in besides, adventitious”), from ἐπί (epí, “on”) + εἰς (eis, “into”) + ὁδός (hodós, “way”).
Words formed from episode
Phrases with episode
Words that rhyme with episode
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- abode
- bode
- choad
- corrode
- encode
- goad
- toad
- antipode
- decode
- erode
- forebode
- hoed
- incommode
- overrode
- recode
- rode
- strode
- throwed
- unicode
- woad
- 'splode
- bestowed
- cestode
- chode
- crowed
- discommode
- glode
- Gold Code
- grode
- growed
- hode
- I'll be blowed
- lowed
- mowed
- nuclear code
- ode
- owed
- shode
- side road
- Spanish Road
- stroad
- subnode
- tode
- toed
- towed
- Union Road
- uudecode
- uuencode
Questions about episode
- What does episode mean?
- Episode means a discrete but connected event, situation, or period within a broader sequence, narrative, or life course.
- What is episode in Hindi?
- Episode in Hindi is एपिसोड (episoḍ), उपकथा (upakthā), प्रकरण (prakraṇ). See Episode meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is episode?
- Episode is a noun.
- How do you pronounce episode?
- Episode is pronounced /ˈɛp.ɪ.səʊd/ (UK).
- What is the plural of episode?
- The plural of episode is episodes.
Words near episode in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: episode (page history and authors); episode (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); episode (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); episode (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); episode (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); episode (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); episode (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); episode (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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