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# episode

«episode» in Mova's school dictionary: **one part of a TV or radio series, podcast or story told…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an episode, episodes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An episode is one part of a TV or radio series, podcast or story told in parts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/episode/#m1)

2) An episode is one event or short period of time that stands out, like an episode of illness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/episode/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life children watch episodes of shows; in reading, a long story may have episodes. Phrases: «the next episode», «the first episode», «an episode of», «a funny episode».

### examples

- I watched one episode of the cartoon before bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/episode/#x1)
- The last episode ended with a mystery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/episode/#x2)
- Each episode is twenty minutes long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/episode/#x3)
- There are ten episodes in the first series. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/episode/#x4)
- That was an embarrassing episode I'd rather forget. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/episode/#x5)
- Grandpa had an episode of dizziness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/episode/#x6)
- If each episode is 25 minutes, 4 episodes take 100 minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/episode/#x7)
- With the bridge-building episode in this "legend" may be compared the opening of another Russian story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/episode/#x8)

### note

Countable. Starts with a vowel sound: «an episode». A group of episodes is a «series» (UK) or «season» (US). In maths, multiplying episode length by the number of episodes gives the total time.

### In the corpora

- [Reality TV is real people in made-up situations, filmed for weeks and cut down into dramatic episodes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/54-reality-tv-what-is-staged-and-what-is-real/0/)
- [Streaming plays the next episode automatically to keep you watching; turning off autoplay helps you decide when to stop.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/55-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts/13/)
- [It cannot see the future, so it invents next week's episode.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/5/)
- [A cliffhanger ends a chapter or episode at a tense moment, so the reader must read on.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/42-building-tension-and-suspense/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «episode» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/episode/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.