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episode noun [ ˈɛpɪsəʊd ]

• an event or a group of events occurring as part of a sequence; an incident or period considered in isolation.
• "the whole episode has been a major embarrassment"
Similar: incident, event, occurrence, happening, occasion, interlude, chapter, experience, adventure, exploit, matter, affair, business, circumstance, set of circumstances, thing, ordeal, trial,
• each of the separate instalments into which a serialized story or radio or television programme is divided.
• "the final episode of the series"
Similar: instalment, section, chapter, scene, act, passage, part, division, portion, subsection, segment, component, programme, show,
Origin: late 17th century (denoting a section between songs in Greek tragedy): from Greek epeisodion, neuter of epeisodios ‘coming in besides’, from epi ‘in addition’ + eisodos ‘entry’ (from eis ‘into’ + hodos ‘way’).


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