series

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a serialized set of programs

   a comedy series

2. 2
   noun

   (sports) several contests played successively by the same teams

   the visiting team swept the series

3. 3
   noun

   similar things placed in order or happening one after another

   they were investigating a series of bank robberies

4. 4
   noun

   a group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection

   the Post Office issued a series commemorating famous American entertainers

5. 5
   noun

   (electronics) connection of components in such a manner that current flows first through one and then through the other

   the voltage divider consisted of a series of fixed resistors

6. 6
   noun

   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.

7. 7
   noun

   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.

8. 8
   noun

   Synonym of season (“one of the groups of episodes that together make up a whole series”).

   I enjoyed the third series of “Friends”.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ser-der. Proto-Italic *serō Latin serō Proto-Italic *-jēs Latin -iēs Latin seriēsbor. English series 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.