episode

Plural

episodes

1. 1.A discrete but connected event, situation, or period within a broader sequence, narrative, or life course.

   • It was a most embarrassing episode in my life.
   • Three of the great extinctions appear to have occurred during cold episodes and two during hot episodes.
   • 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.

2. 2.A bounded narrative unit within a television series, constituting a single installment that is structurally discrete yet interrelated with the series as a whole.

   • I can't wait till next week’s episode.

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