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serried en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Crowded together in rows.
    • Although [John] Peel's grave is the main attraction, Caldbeck is a captivating little village in its own right, with fine views southwards to the Lake District's serried peaks. 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 100:
    • Above the bush the trees stood in serried ranks. 1899 March, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MI, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part II:
    • They have, in the security of their sumptuous offices, behind stout mill gates and serried rows of bayonets and policemen's clubs, defied the State, city, and public. 1912, Striking Textile Workers of Lawrence, Proclamation of the Striking Textile Workers of Lawrence:
    • The Murris in their serried invisible ranks crowd around her. 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, paperback edition, Virago Press, page 45:
    • Steady and slow, as soldiers go in some serried dress parade, With flags a-dance in their cool advance came the gallant gray brigade, 1898, Guy Wetmore Carryl, The Garden of Years and Other Poems (poem), Gettysburg:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
most serried Degree=Sup lexicographic
more serried Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

close-serried

Translations (2)

ru со́мкнутый (crowded together in rows) · bg сгъстен (crowded together in rows)

serried en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of serry
    form of serry