episode
/ˈɛp.ə.soʊd/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.97 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A discrete but connected event, situation, or period within a broader sequence, narrative, or life course.
noun
A bounded narrative unit within a television series, constituting a single installment that is structurally discrete yet interrelated with the series as a whole.
Example Sentences
- "It was a most embarrassing episode in my life."
- "The Attorney-General, however, had used this episode, which Martin in retrospect had felt to be a blot on the scutcheon, merely to emphasise the intelligence and resource of the prisoner."
- "Three of the great extinctions appear to have occurred during cold episodes and two during hot episodes."
- "I can't wait till next week’s episode."
- "We all know how genius “Kamp Krusty,” “A Streetcar Named Marge,” “Homer The Heretic,” “Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie” and “Mr. Plow” are, but even the relatively unheralded episodes offer wall-to-wall laughs and some of the smartest, darkest, and weirdest gags ever Trojan-horsed into a network cartoon with a massive family audience."
Etymology
From French épisode, from New Latin *epīsodium, from Ancient Greek ἐπεισόδιον (epeisódion, “a parenthetic addition, episode”), neuter of ἐπεισόδιος (epeisódios, “following upon the entrance, coming in besides, adventitious”), from ἐπί (epí, “on”) + εἰς (eis, “into”) + ὁδός (hodós, “way”).
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: épisode, *epīsodium, ἐπεισόδιον
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɛp.ə.soʊd/
- British English: /ˈɛp.ɪ.səʊd/