serried

adjective

ser·​ried ˈser-ēd How to pronounce serried (audio)
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1
: crowded or pressed together : compact
The crowd collected in a serried mass …—W. Somerset Maugham
2
[by alteration] : marked by ridges : serrate
… the serried contours of the … Mountains.—Amer. Guide Series: Oregon
serriedly adverb
serriedness noun

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Flowers came up every spring in their serried ranks. a sterile subdivision with serried rows of cookie-cutter houses
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New York must do better than its usual serried towers and clunky blocks; a new cast of leaders can look abroad to figure out how. — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Dec. 2025 The roads of New Orleans are cluttered with serried ranks of billboards touting the services of personal-injury lawyers. — Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026 No one had lined us up in serried, uniform ranks, no one had demanded an oath or a membership—or anything more than the spirit of DIY. — Jonathan Myerson, The New York Review of Books, 4 May 2020 In lieu of the usual venue of the Dolby Theatre, where nominees and their guests sit elbow to elbow in serried ranks, this year’s edition was held in Los Angeles’s cavernous Union Station. — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2021

Word History

First Known Use

1667, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of serried was in 1667

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serried

adjective
ser·​ried ˈser-ēd How to pronounce serried (audio)
: crowded or pressed together
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