'Episode' definitions:
Definition of 'episode'
(from WordNet)
noun
A happening that is distinctive in a series of related events
noun
A brief section of a literary or dramatic work that forms part of a connected series
noun
A part of a broadcast serial [syn: episode, installment, instalment]
noun
Film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie [syn: sequence, episode]
Definition of 'Episode'
From: GCIDE
- Episode \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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'episode'
From: Moby 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