Following Meaning
/ˈfɒləʊɪŋ/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjComing next, either in sequence or in time.
adjAbout to be specified.
Sentence Examples
The meeting was adjourned until the following week.
It would help us if you would reserve the following hotel during our conference.
He took charge of the family business following his father's death.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The new band quickly gained a large ____ on social media due to their unique sound.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ day, they decided to go for a long hike in the mountains despite the rain.
Word Origin & History
By surface analysis, follow + -ing.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction."
— 1835, Sir John Ross, Sir James Clark Ross, Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Volume 1, pages 284–5:
"And White Hart Lane was stunned when Rovers scored just five minutes after the restart in front of their away following."
— 2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport:
"Mikayla has 14.4 million followers on TikTok and it is growing every day, and she has accumulated over one billion likes on the app. She also has 2.5 million followers on Instagram. Both her followings accumulate to an impressive 16.9, almost 17 million followers."
— 2023 January 31, Katelyn Mensah, “Who is Mikayla Nogueira? The beauty TikToker whose face and eyelashes are all over your FYP”, in The Tab, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2023:
"Move Forward, which has built a strong following among young people, appeared to have outperformed expectations."
— 2023 May 14, Rebecca Ratcliffe, Thitipol Panyalimpanun, “Opposition parties take lead in Thai election”, in The Guardian:
"When a new user joins Weibo, he should register Weibo and get a unique ID, and then he takes some existing users as his followings and waits for others to follow him."
— 2014, Zhengbiao Guo, Zhitang Li, Hao Tu, Da Xie, “Weibo: An Information-Driven Online Social Network”, in Marina L.Gavrilova, C.J. Kenneth Tan, editors, Transactions on Computational Science XXII (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 8360), Springer, →ISBN, part I (Neural and Social Networks), page 6:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The new band quickly gained a large ____ on social media due to their unique sound.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The ____ day, they decided to go for a long hike in the mountains despite the rain.