{
    "term": "series",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a set of television or radio programmes or podcasts that deal with the same subject or that have the same characters",
            "labels": "(British English)(North American English)(especially British English)(especially North American English)(especially North American English)(especially British English)(especially North American English)(British English)(British English)(British English)",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The first episode of the new series is on Saturday."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her stories have been made into a **TV series**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She has a small part in a drama series for radio."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the hit comedy series ‘The Big Bang Theory’"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a special two-part series on the economy"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The BBC has already commissioned a second series."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We watched the final part of a series on Australian wildlife."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["TV, radio and news"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["radio", "television", "TV"],
                "verb + series": ["film", "commission", "broadcast"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the series", "series  about", "series  on"],
                "phrases": ["an episode of a series", "a part of a series"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "several events or things of a similar kind that happen one after the other",
            "sensetop": "series of somethingin a series of something",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The incident sparked off a **series of events** that nobody had foreseen.",
                    "contextForm": "series of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "This case raises a **whole series** of important questions."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The two sides held a series of meetings in the summer."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The movie consisted of a series of flashbacks."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This is the latest in a series of articles on the nature of modern society.",
                    "contextForm": "in a series of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He is in hospital for a whole series of tests."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The quartet will be performing in a series of lunchtime concerts."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He had committed a series of minor criminal offences."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The shooting was the latest in a series of violent attacks in the city."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You will need to have a series of vaccinations before you visit the area."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the final book in the series"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She wrote a whole series of novels between 1985 and 2005."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["entire", "whole", "ongoing"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the series", "series  of"],
                "phrases": [
                    "the first of a/​the series",
                    "the last of a/​the series",
                    "the first in a series"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a set of sports games played between the same two teams",
            "labels": "(sport)",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the **World Series** *(= in baseball)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "England have lost the **Test series** *(= of  matches)* against India."
                },
                {
                    "text": "India must win to level the series."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They took the first two games in the series."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The Bronx Bombers won two of three in a weekend series with the Red Sox."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Sports: ball and racket sports"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["racing", "World Series", "championship"],
                "verb + series": ["lose", "win", "level"],
                "preposition": ["in the series", "series  with"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "an electrical circuit in which the current passes through all the parts in the correct order",
            "labels": "(specialist)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "batteries connected in series"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a series circuit"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsɪəriːz/",
                "audio": "se/series/series__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsɪriːz/",
                "audio": "se/series/series__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 17th cent.: from Latin, literally ‘row, chain’, from serere ‘join, connect’."
}