episode : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: episode	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
episode n 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 Synonym(s): episode, installment, instalment film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie Synonym(s): sequence, episode
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. [82]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.