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series

n. countable
A2 Elementary Oxford US //ˈsɪɹiz// UK //sˈiəɹiz// se·ries Academic General-service

n. 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.


SIMPLE

I am watching a new series on television.

CONTEXTUAL

The local library is hosting a series of lectures about history every Tuesday this month.

COMPLEX

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.

Synonyms
Origin

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.

Usage

The singular and plural forms are identical; one series, two series.

Pitfall

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.

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