Word Meanings - FOLLOWING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One's followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively. Macaulay. 2. Vocation; business; profession.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FOLLOWING)

• After
• Behind
• following
• succeeding
• Sequence
• Following
• order
• succession
• series
• consequence
• progression
• continuity
• posteriority
• Subsequent
• Posterior
• later
• after
• Succession
• supervention
• consecution
• sequence
• rotation
• supply
• suite

Related words: (words related to FOLLOWING)

• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• SUCCEEDANT
  Succeeding one another; following.
• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• AFTER
  To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts
• LATERAN
  The church and palace of St. John Lateran, the church being the cathedral church of Rome, and the highest in rank of all churches in the Catholic world. Note: The name is said to have been derived from that of the Laterani family, who possessed
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• FOLLOWING EDGE
  See ABOVE
• SERIES DYNAMO
  A series-wound dynamo. A dynamo running in series with another or others.
• PROGRESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress.
• CONTINUITY
  the state of being continuous; uninterupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers. Grew. The sight would be tired, if it were attracted by a continuity of glittering objects. Dryden. Law of continuity
• LATERAL
  Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. 3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. Lateral cleavage , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation
• LATERALLY
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• SUPPLY
  LL. suppletare, from L. supplere, suppletum; sub under + plere to 1. To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial
• SERIES MOTOR
  A series-wound motor. A motor capable of being used in a series circuit.
• SUCCEEDER
  A successor. Shak. Tennyson.
• ROTATION
  1. The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a distant point; thus, the daily turning of the earth on its axis is a rotation; its annual motion
• AFTERSHAFT
  The hypoptilum.
• LATER
  A brick or tile. Knight.
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• SUBSEQUENT
  1. Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely; as, subsequent events; subsequent ages or years; a period long subsequent to the foundation of Rome. 2. Following in order of place; succeeding; as, a subsequent
• INCONSEQUENCE
  The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• DISCONTINUITY
  Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts. "Discontinuity of surface." Boyle.
• SLATER
  One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• ACCORDER
  One who accords, assents, or concedes.
• INFLATER
  One who, or that which, inflates; as, the inflaters of the stock exchange.