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series
What does series mean?
series (noun): a number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use series in a sentence?
- A series of seemingly inconsequential events led cumulatively to the fall of the company. (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0)
How do you pronounce series?
/ˈsɪɹiz/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does series come from?
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”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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