series

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A number of similar things or events that come one after another.

   A series of seemingly small mistakes led to the company's collapse.

2. 2
   noun

   A set of television or radio programmes about the same subject or with the same characters.

   "Friends" was one of the most successful television series in recent years.

3. 3
   noun

   A set of sports matches played between the same teams.

   The visiting team won every game and swept the series.

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.

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