German

Noun

Episode f ‎(genitive Episode, plural Episoden)

1. episode (something that took place)

Declension

English

Noun

episode ‎(plural episodes)

1. An incident or action standing out by itself, but more or less connected with a complete series of events.

   It was a most embarrassing episode in my life.‎

   • 1935, Francis Beeding, chapter 10/6, in The Norwich Victims:

     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. An installment of a drama told in parts, as in a TV series.

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

   • 2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:

     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.

Derived terms

• episodic
• episodical

Translations

External links

• episode in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• episode in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

episode f ‎(plural episoden or episodes, diminutive episodetje n)

1. An episode, either sense

Synonyms

• (drama): aflevering

Derived terms

• episodisch

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐπεισόδιον ‎(epeisódion), via French épisode

Noun

episode m ‎(definite singular episoden, indefinite plural episoder, definite plural episodene)

1. an episode
2. an incident

References

• “episode” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐπεισόδιον ‎(epeisódion), via French épisode

Noun

episode m ‎(definite singular episoden, indefinite plural episodar, definite plural episodane)

1. an episode
2. an incident

References

• “episode” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.