episodeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɛp.ɪ.səʊd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛp.ə.soʊd/
  • ハイフネーション: epi‧sode

名詞

episode (複数形 episodes)

1. An incident, action, or time period standing out by itself, but more or less connected with a complete series of events.

   It was a most embarrassing episode in my life.

   • 1935, Francis Beeding [pseudonym; John Palmer], “10/6”, in The Norwich Victims, →OL:

     The Attorney-General, however, had used this episode, which Martin in retrospect had felt to be a blot on the scutcheon, merely to emphasise the intelligence and resource of the prisoner.

   • 2017, Anthony J. McMichael, Alistair Woodward, Cameron Muir, Climate Change and the Health of Nations, →ISBN, page 81:

     Three of the great extinctions appear to have occurred during cold episodes and two during hot episodes.

2. An instalment of a drama told in parts, as in a TV series.

   I can't wait till next week’s episode.

   • 2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): ‘Marge Gets A Job’ (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The A.V. Club‎^[1]:

     We all know how genius “Kamp Krusty,” “A Streetcar Named Marge,” “Homer The Heretic,” “Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie” and “Mr. Plow” are, but even the relatively unheralded episodes offer wall-to-wall laughs and some of the smartest, darkest, and weirdest gags ever Trojan-horsed into a network cartoon with a massive family audience.

下位語

• (instalment of a TV series): bottle episode

派生語

• episodic
• episodical
• very special episode

Further reading

• “episode”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• episode in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

アナグラム

• poesied