- the part of an ancient Greek tragedy between two choric songs: it corresponds to an act
- in a novel, narrative poem, etc., a portion of the story considered as a unit
- any event or series of events complete in itself but forming part of a larger one: an episode in the war
- any installment of a serialized story or drama
- Music a passage or section digressing from a main theme, as in a fugue or rondo
Origin of episode
Classical Greek epeisodion, addition, episode, origin, originally neuter of epeisodios, following upon the entrance from epi-, upon + eisodos, an entrance from eis-, into + hodos, way, road from Indo-European base an unverified form sed-, to go
