World Series
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3.0
- noun
- /wɜrld ˈsɪriz/
- US
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Serie Mundial
- A lot of people around here were buzzing because the Dodgers won the first game of the World Series last night.
- win the World Series
- a World Series game
- a World Series team
Do you think they should have had their World Series trophy taken from them?
- Do you think they should have had their World Series trophy taken from them?
- And in the goodest Sports News, the Houston Astros won their first World Series ever.
- OK and I was on my way to Houston for the World Series.
- Goes on to winning the World Series and beating his rivals, the New York Yankees.
- Now imagine the Boston Red Sox winning the World Series.
- OK tonight the Dodgers take on Tampa Bay Rays for game one in the World Series.
- A lot of people around here were buzzing because the Dodgers won the first game of the World Series last night.
- So, you know, we can believe that the Yankees are going to win the World Series every particular year if we're Yankee fans.
- Of course, when that happened to Wally, we just assumed he was trying to hide from his bookie after he bet on the Yankees to win the World Series.
- He's still there the entire World Series, he there the entire game.
- And yes, you had to like at the World Series.
- So let's jump right into this this vast World Series.
Examples
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The team won the World Series in 1957, and fans flocked to the ballpark.
Academic text (2014) -
Game six of the World Series.
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Who won the World Series?
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It's not like it's the seventh game of the World Series.
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Texas Rangers win the World Series in six.
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Houston won the World Series that year, beating the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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At the counter, a few stray people gathered around watching the World Series on an old TV.
Fiction book (2000) -
But they're unassailable, the winner of two World Series titles in the last three years.
Blog text (2) -
I think the Houston Astros, that was a legit World Series championship.
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The Houston Astros won the World Series in 2017, marking a historic victory.
Synonyms
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2.3
Several games played in a row between the same teams to decide a winner
Surface Forms
Morphology
Both constituents are transparent — 'world' and 'series' suggest a global sequence of matches — but the term is a fixed proper name for a specific North American baseball championship (MLB) and its precise reference is not derivable from the words alone. A B1 learner who knows the parts will grasp a general idea of a sporting series but not the specific institutional meaning, so the expression is only partially predictable.
Etymology
World Series comes from the idea of two top teams playing a multi-game series to decide the best team in the world; early organisers called it a 'world championship' to make the event feel very big. That's why today World Series means the yearly championship between the American League and the National League.