1. • noun - a happening that is distinctive in a series of related events
   • noun - a brief section of a literary or dramatic work that forms part of a connected series
   • noun - a part of a broadcast serial
   • noun - film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie
2. • An incident or event that is part of a progression or a larger sequence: “South Africa may remain one of history’s most tragic episodes” (Bayard Rustin).
   • One of a series of related events in the course of a continuous account.
   • A portion of a narrative that relates an event or a series of connected events and forms a coherent story in itself; an incident: an episode in a picaresque novel.
   • A separate part of a serialized work, such as a novel or play.
   • A section of a classic Greek tragedy that occurs between two choric songs.
   • A passage between statements of a main subject or theme, as in a rondo or fugue.
3. • adj - an incident in the course of a continuous experience [n -S] : EPISODIC

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