Episode
Episode noun - Something that happens.
Usage example: the episode in which the Native American Samoset walked into Plymouth Plantation and surprised the Pilgrims with the greeting, “Welcome, Englishman”
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Synonyms for Episode
Incident is a synonym for episode in event topic. In some cases you can use "Incident" instead a noun "Episode", when it comes to topics like happening, affair, adventure, happen. popular alternative
Nearby Words: episodic, episodically
Incident
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- experience and episode
- experience and incident
- occurrence and episode
- occurrence and incident
- business and episode
- business and incident
- thing and episode
- thing and incident
- event and episode
- event and incident
- matter and episode
- matter and incident
- circumstance and episode
- circumstance and incident
How words are described
| particular | particular episode | particular incident |
| similar | similar episode | similar incident |
| certain | certain episode | certain incident |
| original | original episode | original incident |
| Other adjectives: single, actual, entire, real, bad, infamous, memorable, famous, early, later, last, latest, latter, different, recent, earlier, previous, aforementioned. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- Buddy later apologized for the incident and the episode was removed from rotation.
Source: Series / Cake Boss -
A similar incident appears in a Halloween episode spoofing 28 Days Later, with "Double Meat" Krustyburgers turning people into "Munchers".
Source: The Food Poisoning Incident -
The incident occurred offscreen, with the episode instead focusing on the psychological effects that the experience had on Max.
Source: Axes at School
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Incident and Episode. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/episode/incident
Episode & Incident. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/episode/incident>.
Incident or Episode. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/episode/incident.
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