Episode

Noun

 * 1) An incident or action standing out by itself, but more or less connected with a complete series of events.
 * ''It was a most embarrassing episode in my life
 * 1) An installment of a drama told in parts, as in a TV series.
 * ''I can't wait till next week’s episode.

Adjectives for Episode
impressive; dramatic; colorful; ludicrous; tragical; unsavory; extraordinary; pungent; exciting; wearing; pathetic; undignified; magnificent; ugly; continental; momentous; stirring; detached; mystical; peaceful; quixotic; picturesque; unforeseen; human; moving; trivial; soul-stirring; unfinished.

Verbs for Episode
arrange—s; brood upon—; continue—; dramatize—; finish—; interject—; interpose—; introduce—; involve in—; number—s; recount—; refer to—; relate—; repeat —; resume—; —climaxes; —concerns; — crops up; —embraces; —entertains; —implicates ; —intervenes.

Synonyms for Episode
incident, occurrence, event, happening, adventure, circumstance.

Derived terms

 * episodic
 * episodical

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From *undefined: <  έπεισόδιον:, neuter of έπεισόδιος: < έπι: + είς: + όδός:.

Translations

 * Catalan: episodi
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (shìjiàn)
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:


 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: eachtra, teagmhas
 * Polish:
 * Swedish:


 * Catalan: episodi
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (jí)
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: eagrán, eipeasóid
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * : episodio
 * Swedish: ,


 * : случка (1), епизод


 * : atvik (1), þáttur (2)
 * : episodio
 * : episódio
 * : näijenot

Noun

 * 1) An episode, either sense

Synonyms

 * (drama) aflevering

Derived terms

 * episodisch