episode
pronunciation
How to pronounce episode in British English:
UK [ˈepɪsəʊd]
How to pronounce episode in American English:
US [ˈepɪsoʊd]
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- Noun:
- a happening that is distinctive in a series of related events
- a brief section of a literary or dramatic work that forms part of a connected series
- a part of a broadcast serial
- film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie
Word Origin
- episode
- episode: [17] In modern English, an episode is a component in a series of connected events, but originally it was something incidental, coming in adventitiously from the side. The word comes from Greek epeisódion ‘addition’, a noun use of the adjective epeisódios ‘coming in besides’. This was a compound formed from the prefix epí- ‘besides’ and the noun eísodos ‘coming in, entrance’ – which in turn was a compound formed from the preposition eis ‘into’ and hodós ‘way’ (a relative of Russian chodit’ ‘go’).=> exodus
- episode (n.)
- 1670s, "commentary between two choric songs in a Greek tragedy," also "an incidental narrative or digression within a story, poem, etc.," from French épisode or directly from Greek epeisodion "an episode," literally "an addition," noun use of neuter of epeisodios "coming in besides," from epi "in addition" (see epi-) + eisodos "a coming in, entrance" (from eis "into" + hodos "way"). Transferred sense of "outstanding incident, experience" first recorded in English 1773. Transferred by 1930s to individual broadcasts of serial radio programs.
Synonym
Example
- 1. The lehmans episode demonstrates that incompetence has a price .
- 2. No.5 to what extent do you learn about the science in a particular episode before taping ?
- 3. But that was only the first episode .
- 4. The first episode features celebrated geneticist professor steve jones on sex interspersed with laughs , demonstrations and debate .
- 5. I ask what the episode taught him .