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megaseries

megaseries noun: a series that is much longer than is usually the case.

Noun

megaseries (plural megaseries)

  1. A series that is much longer than is usually the case.
    • At 5:00, Krishnamurti speaks on “The Mind in Meditation” from Bangalore, India (1/31/71), concluding our megaseries “Krishnamurti in foreign lands.”1980 January 16 – February, KPFK Folio, volume 22, number 1, North Hollywood, Calif.: KPFK, page 35, column 1
    • Unfortunately, this was not as blindingly clear to the Television Management in London as it was to us and several other major projects were produced from the metropolis before the Natural History Unit at Bristol was in a position to launch its first ‘megaseries’ after many years of lobbying.1982, Christopher Parsons, “Life on Earth”, in True to Nature: Christopher Parsons Looks Back on 25 Years of Wildlife Filming with the BBC Natural History Unit, Bar Hill, Cambs.: Patrick Stephens...

Examples of megaseries in a sentence

  • Remember the rampaging political rhetoric that accompanied ABC’s presentation of the $40 million, 14½-hour megaseries Amerika?1987 May 29 – June 4, Mark Jurkowitz, “Don’t quote me: Duking it out: cheap shots and puff pieces”, in The Boston Phoenix, volume XVI...
  • Like many of the volumes in this megaseries, Blood follows a certain pattern.1995 October, Paul Di Filippo, “[On Books] Wise Blood”, in Gardner Dozois, editor, Asimov’s Science Fiction, volume 19, number 11 (whole...
  • Robert Goldberg reviews the 10-part megaseries “American Cinema,” airing on PBS in Feb 1995.1996, “Television Programs”, in The Wall Street Journal Index 1995, Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI, →ISBN, page 2261, column 3:
  • The CNN megaseries, which began five weeks ago and will not conclude till next April, might have been a sprawling bore or triumphalist rant.2000, Kenneth Auchincloss, “The Cold War On-Screen”, in Arnold Beichman, editor, CNN’s Cold War Documentary: Issues and Controversy...

Forms of megaseries

pluralmegaseries

Origin of megaseries

From mega- + series.

Questions about megaseries

What does megaseries mean?
Megaseries means a series that is much longer than is usually the case.
How do you use megaseries in a sentence?
Remember the rampaging political rhetoric that accompanied ABC’s presentation of the $40 million, 14½-hour megaseries Amerika?
What part of speech is megaseries?
Megaseries is a noun.
What is the plural of megaseries?
The plural of megaseries is megaseries.

Words near megaseries in the dictionary

  1. megasellers
  2. megaselling
  3. megaseme
  4. megasequence
  5. megasequences
  6. megaseries
  7. megaservice
  8. megaservices
  9. megashark
  10. megasharks
  11. megashear

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