series vs Stations of the Cross

Stations of the Cross vs series

series and Stations of the Cross both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
series	Yes	No	No	No
Stations of the Cross	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Stations of the Cross is a hyponym of series; that is, Stations of the Cross is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than series:

series: similar things placed in order or happening one after another
Stations of the Cross: (Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary

Other hyponyms of series include Stations, chain, concatenation, cordon, course, line, cycle, electrochemical series, electromotive force series, electromotive series, hierarchy, nexus, patterned advance, progression, blizzard, rash, sequence, string, train, succession, wave train, helium group, actinide series, lanthanide series.

series (noun)	Stations of the Cross (noun)
(mathematics) the sum of a finite or infinite sequence of expressions	(Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary
a periodical that appears at scheduled times
a serialized set of programs
(sports) several contests played successively by the same teams
similar things placed in order or happening one after another
a group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection
(electronics) connection of components in such a manner that current flows first through one and then through the other

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