Series Part Extra Examples Noun ˈsɪəriːz ˈsɪriːz Episode

• the first episode of the new series is on saturday.
• her stories have been made into a tv series.
• she has a small part in a drama series for radio.
• the hit comedy series ‘the big bang theory’

series

1. a set of television or radio programmes or podcasts that deal with the same subject or that have the same characters
• The first episode of the new series is on Saturday.
• Her stories have been made into a TV series.
• She has a small part in a drama series for radio.
• the hit comedy series ‘The Big Bang Theory’

Extra Examples

• a special two-part series on the economy
• The BBC has already commissioned a second series.
• We watched the final part of a series on Australian wildlife.
2. several events or things of a similar kind that happen one after the other
• The incident sparked off a series of events that nobody had foreseen.
• This case raises a whole series of important questions.
• The two sides held a series of meetings in the summer.
• The movie consisted of a series of flashbacks.
• This is the latest in a series of articles on the nature of modern society.

Extra Examples

• He is in hospital for a whole series of tests.
• The quartet will be performing in a series of lunchtime concerts.
• He had committed a series of minor criminal offences.
• The shooting was the latest in a series of violent attacks in the city.
• You will need to have a series of vaccinations before you visit the area.
• the final book in the series
• She wrote a whole series of novels between 1985 and 2005.
3. a set of sports games played between the same two teams
• the World Series (= in baseball)
• England have lost the Test series (= of cricket matches) against India.

Extra Examples

• India must win to level the series.
• They took the first two games in the series.
• The Bronx Bombers won two of three in a weekend series with the Red Sox.
4. an electrical circuit in which the current passes through all the parts in the correct order
• batteries connected in series
• a series circuit

Word Origin

• early 17th cent.: from Latin, literally ‘row, chain’, from serere ‘join, connect’.