episode

Meaning

Noun

• An incident, action, or time period standing out by itself, but more or less connected with a complete series of events.
• An instalment of a drama told in parts, as in a TV series.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• bottle episode

Origin

• From French épisode, from New Latin *epīsodium, from Ancient Greek ἐπεισόδιον ("a parenthetic addition, episode"), neuter of ἐπεισόδιος, from ἐπί + εἰς + ὁδός.