2026

Series

//ˈsɪə.ɹiːz//

Definitions

1
A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.
A series of seemingly inconsequential events led cumulatively to the fall of the company.
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chain line sequence
2
A television or radio program consisting of several episodes that are broadcast at regular intervals.
“Friends” was one of the most successful television series in recent years.
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show program
3
Synonym of season (“one of the groups of episodes that together make up a whole series”).
I enjoyed the third series of “Friends”.
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season

Word 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,...

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