series
n. countablen. a group of similar things that happen one after another. You can use this for TV shows, books, or events that are connected.
n. a number of similar or related things, events, or people coming one after another. Often used to describe a set of television programmes or a sequence of mathematical terms.
I am watching a new series on television.
The local library is hosting a series of lectures about history every Tuesday this month.
The author intended the trilogy to be a continuous narrative, but the publisher insisted on marketing it as a series of standalone novels to attract casual readers.
Attested from the 1610s; borrowed from Latin seriēs, from serere (“to join together, bind”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, put together, to line up”). Related to desert, insert, sermon, and sorcerer.
The singular and plural forms are identical; one series, two series.
a serie of eventsa series of eventsThe word 'series' ends in 's' even in its singular form; learners often mistakenly remove the 's' to make it singular.