Episode
['epɪsəʊd] or ['ɛpɪsod]
Definition
(noun.) a brief section of a literary or dramatic work that forms part of a connected series.
(noun.) a part of a broadcast serial.
(noun.) a happening that is distinctive in a series of related events.
Editor: Tracy--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Digression, incidental narrative.
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Definition
n. a story introduced into a narrative or poem to give variety: an interesting incident.—adjs. Ep′isōdal Episō′dial Episōd′ic Episōd′ical pertaining to or contained in an episode: brought in as a digression.—adv. Episōd′ically by way of episode: incidentally.
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Examples
- The episode of Nettie Crane's timely rescue from disease had been one of the most satisfying incidents of her connection with Gerty's charitable work. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The episode is, by assumption, past. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Since that episode, which will probably be appreciated by most automobilists, Edison has taken up the electric automobile, and is now using it as well as developing it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Like drama which compresses the tragedy of a lifetime into a unity of time, place, and action, history foreshortens an epoch into an episode. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Edison tells of another similar episode. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Another episode of this period is curious in its revelation of the tenacity with which Edison has always held to some of his oldest possessions with a sense of personal attachment. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A visit to Mrs. Manson Mingott was always an amusing episode to the young man. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Another episode at Goerck Street did not find the visitors quite so stoical. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- During the homeward drive Archer pondered deeply on this episode. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Shortly after this episode another prisoner was brought in and chained near me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- For many years after this episode, the modern lead-lead type of battery thus brought forward with so great a flourish of trumpets had a hard time of it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But life told them that society was brutal: an episode like the shirtwaist factory fire drove them to blasphemy and dynamite. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Newland Archer, during this brief episode, had been thrown into a strange state of embarrassment. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- To the boy, no doubt, the episode was only a pathetic instance of vain frustration, of wasted forces. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I well remember a hot episode of his with a certain Madame Panache--a lady temporarily employed by Madame Beck to give lessons in history. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- From Canada, after the episodes noted in the last chapter, he went to Adrian, Michigan, and of what happened there Edison tells a story typical of his wanderings for several years to come. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The evils of prostitution are seen as a series of episodes, each of which must be clubbed, forbidden, raided and jailed. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Episodes full of human interest attend its development. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The lives of great men, of heroes and leaders, make concrete and vital historic episodes otherwise abstract and incomprehensible. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But this was not until some episodes with baby were over, and had left her mind at leisure. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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