/ep"euh sohd', -zohd'/ , n.
1. an incident in the course of a series of events, in a person's life or experience, etc.
2. an incident, scene, etc., within a narrative, usually fully developed and either integrated within the main story or digressing from it.
3. one of a number of loosely connected, but usually thematically related, scenes or stories constituting a literary work.
4. epeisodion.
5. Music. an intermediate or digressive passage, esp. in a contrapuntal composition.
6. Motion Pictures, Radio, and Television. any one of the separate productions that constitute a serial.
[ 1670-80; epeisódion addition, episode, n. use of neut. of epeisódios coming in addition, equiv. to ep- EP- + eísod ( os ) entrance ( eis- into + ( h ) odós road, way) + -ios adj. suffix ]
Syn. 1. happening. See event .