series – English noun declension

English noun forms of series

Noun: series
Singularseries
Pluralseries

Sample Sentences

  • A series of seemingly inconsequential events led cumulatively to the fall of the company.
  • When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him.[…]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain. [1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
  • Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures. [2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:]
  • Friends was one of the most successful television series in recent years.
  • I enjoyed the third series of Friends.
  • The harmonic series has been much studied.
  • The Blue Jays are playing the Yankees in a four-game series.
  • A series of ill health, however, rendered it expedient for him to return to England [1806, The Authentic Memoirs of Lord Nelson:]
  • Is it credible that everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power, constitute only a part, and such a small part, of future punishment; and such too, as, after a series of torment, must, next to being made happy, be the most acceptable thing to befall them? [1826, Charles Buck, “Destructionists”, in A Theological Dictionary:]

Nouns inflected like series

series, gallows, Snickers, rendezvous, innings,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ser-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-eti
4. Proto-Indo-European *séreti
5. Proto-Italic *serō
6. Latin serō
7. Proto-Italic *-jēs
8. Latin -iēs
9. Latin seriēsbor.
10. English series
11. 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. See: Latin Nouns 'seriēs'.