different between episode vs adventure

English

Etymology

From French épisode, from New Latin *ep?sodium, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (epeisódion, “a parenthetic addition, episode”), neuter of ?????????? (epeisódios, “following upon the entrance, coming in besides, adventitious”), from ??? (epí, “on”) + ??? (eis, “into”) + ???? (hodós, “way”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??p?s??d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??p?so?d/
• Hyphenation: epi?sode

Noun

episode (plural episodes)

1. An incident, action, or time period standing out by itself, but more or less connected with a complete series of events.
2. An instalment of a drama told in parts, as in a TV series.

Hyponyms

• (instalment of a TV series): bottle episode

Derived terms

• episodic
• episodical

Translations

Further reading

• episode in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• episode in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• poesied

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French épisode, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (epeisódion).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?.pi?so?.d?/
• Hyphenation: epi?so?de
• Rhymes: -o?d?

Noun

episode f (plural episoden or episodes, diminutive episodetje n)

1. An episode (instalment).
2. An episode (action, time period or sequence of events).

Synonyms

• (drama): aflevering

Derived terms

• episodisch

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: episode

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch episode, from French épisode, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (epeisódion).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pi?sod?]
• Hyphenation: èpi?so?dê

Noun

èpisodê (first-person possessive episodeku, second-person possessive episodemu, third-person possessive episodenya)

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

   Synonyms: kejadian, peristiwa

Alternative forms

• episod (nonstandard Indonesian), episod (standard Malay)

Related terms

Further reading

• “episode” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (epeisódion), via French épisode

Noun

episode m (definite singular episoden, indefinite plural episoder, definite plural episodene)

1. an episode
2. an incident

References

• “episode” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (epeisódion), via French épisode

Noun

episode m (definite singular episoden, indefinite plural episodar, definite plural episodane)

1. an episode
2. an incident

References

• “episode” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Pronunciation

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /?d?v?nt???/, /æd?v?nt???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?v?nt???/
• Hyphenation: ad?ven?ture

Etymology 1

From Middle English aventure, aunter, anter, from Old French aventure, from Late Latin adventurus, from Latin advenire, adventum (“to arrive”), which in the Romance languages took the sense of "to happen, befall" (see also advene).

Noun

adventure (countable and uncountable, plural adventures)

1. The encountering of risks; a bold undertaking, in which dangers are likely to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.
2. A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.

3. A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
4. (uncountable) A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.

5. (video games) A text adventure or an adventure game.
6. (obsolete) That which happens by chance; hazard; hap.
7. (obsolete) Chance of danger or loss.
8. (obsolete) Risk; danger; peril.
   • 1895, Lord Berners (translator), The Chronicles of Froissart

     He was in great adventure of his life.

Synonyms

• (that which happens by chance): fortune, hazard, luck; see also Thesaurus:luck
• (chance of danger or loss): hazard
• (risk): jeopardy; see also Thesaurus:danger

Antonyms

• abstention, peradventure, unadventurous

Derived terms

• at all adventures

Related terms

• advent
• advene

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English aventuren, auntren, which from Old French aventurer, from aventure.

Verb

adventure (third-person singular simple present adventures, present participle adventuring, simple past and past participle adventured)

1. (archaic, transitive) To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.
2. (archaic, transitive) To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
   • c. 1860, Isaac Taylor, Heads in Groups:

     Discriminations might be adventured.

3. (archaic, intransitive) To try the chance; to take the risk.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• adventure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• aventured, unaverted

Latin

Participle

advent?re

1. vocative masculine singular of advent?rus

Middle French

Alternative forms

• aventure

Etymology

From Old French avanture, with the addition of a d to reflect Latin advent?rum.

Noun

adventure f (plural adventures)

1. adventure
2. fortune