Added 2 October 2026
series
/ˈsɪə.ɹiːz/ noun
In Latin: seriēs Wiktionary
noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about series at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
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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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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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Synonym of season (“one of the groups of episodes that together make up a whole series”).
I enjoyed the third series of Friends.
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.
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