Meaning of episode in English

episode

noun [ C ]

/ˈep.ɪ.səʊd/ us

/ˈep.ə.soʊd/

episode noun [C] (EVENT)

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a single event or group of related events:

This latest episode in the fraud scandal has shocked a lot of people.

The drugs, the divorce, and the depression - it's an episode in his life that he wants to forget.

Synonyms

event
happening 
incident 
occurrence (HAPPENING)
phenomenon (EXISTING THING)

a sudden short period in which someone suffers the effects of a physical or mental illness:

I had an episode of severe chest pain.

The fainting episode was caused by heat.

He still has therapy for his PTSD and not long ago, he had an episode.

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The whole episode left me fuming at the injustice of it all.
It was just another episode in an ongoing saga of marriage problems.
The whole episode was a blatant attempt to gain publicity.
That was a funny episode in my life.
It was an episode in his life that he'd like to forget.
Other severe psychiatric complications include episodes of delirium.
These drugs can trigger a manic episode in people with bipolar disorder.
She ended up in hospital after one particularly bad episode.

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episode noun [C] (PART OF STORY)

one of the single parts into which a story is divided, especially when it is broadcast on the television or radio

Examples

Next up on Channel 4 is the first episode of a new medical drama set in Chicago.
It's the penultimate episode of the series tonight.
It's my favourite TV programme - I never miss an episode.
I missed the second episode of the series so I don't know what's going on now.
It is her proud boast that she has never missed a single episode of the soap opera.

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Broadcasting: programmes & other broadcasts

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(Definition of episode from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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episode

noun [ C ]

/ˈep·əˌsoʊd/

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a single event or group of related events:

That was an episode in my life that I’d like to forget.

literature

An episode is a series of actions or events that take place at one time in a work of literature.

An episode is also one of the parts of a television or radio program that is given as a series over a period of time.

(Definition of episode from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of episode

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Over the past 20 years little progress has been made in reducing the length of depressive episodes in those with bipolar illness.

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Negative memories of past rumination and selffocused depressive episodes and ineffectual coping may be associated with more depressogenic attributions.

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To determine whether children actually produced ' happen ' more often in negative than positive contexts, the order of occurrence of surrounding utterances within episodes was examined.

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However, there is no statistical remedy for failure to recall episodes or symptoms.

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The sample comprised 354 first-episode psychosis patients followed up 12-months after remission/stabilization of their psychotic symptoms.

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A greater number of previous depressive episodes was also associated with a greater percentage of time spent with subsyndromal depressive symptoms.

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He provides a staged genre analysis of the bribery event and shows which stages are constitutive, thereby demonstrating that certain so-called bribery episodes were not.

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The average annualized number of outpatient visits was substantially higher for each disease state compared with the number of inpatient episodes.

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Coders were trained to reliability using selected video recorded free-play episodes that had been previously coded by criterion coders.

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This is particularly suggested by the succession of evaporite couplets, which are attributed to pulsating episodes of water table change.

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Following completion of the first story episode, the referent identification and picture-naming tasks were re-administered.

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In the course of repeated episodes of pain, or with persistent pain, unconditioned verbal, paraverbal, and motor responses come under the control of external contingencies.

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This might be especially useful among cases with exclusively short episodes.

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Only those utterances produced during shared attention episodes were retained in each protocol.

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Drug screening tests are routinely performed on all first-episode patients.

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Collocations with episode

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debut episode

The third season debut episode averaged 665,000 viewers.

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depressive episode

The dependent variable was the onset of a depressive episode.

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entire episode

This is the disgraceful part of the entire episode.

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in Chinese (Traditional)

事件, （相關的）一連串事件, 一段經歷…

Meaning of episode in English

episode noun [C] (EVENT)

episode noun [C] (PART OF STORY)

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