sequel

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US /ˈsiːkwəl/
noun Freq #15738

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    The events, collectively, which follow a previously mentioned event; the aftermath.

    Now here Chriſtian was worſe put to it then in his fight with Apollyon, as by the ſequel you ſhall ſee.

  2. 2
    noun

    Any text that continues on from another text.

    It greatly resembles the Rabbinical account of the origin of the Mazckeen, which the reader will meet in the sequel.

  3. 3
    noun

    The remainder of the text; what follows. Used exclusively in the set phrase "in the sequel".

    In the sequel we restrict ourselves to “nice” cases without going into details about the nicety conditions which have to be fulfilled (see, e.g., Freudenthal [1]).

  4. 4
    noun

    a part added to a book or play that continues and extends it

  5. 5
    noun

    something that follows something else

  6. 6
    noun

    A narrative that is written after another narrative set in the same universe, especially a narrative that is chronologically set after its predecessors, or (perhaps improper usage) any narrative that has a preceding narrative of its own.

  7. 7
    noun

    Thirlage.

  8. 8
    noun

    A person's descendants.

Etymology

From Middle English sequele, sequelle, sequile, from Middle French sequele, sequelle and its etymon, Latin sequēla, from sequī (“to follow”). Doublet of sequela.

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Synonyms
4 noun · a part added to a book or... continuation
5 noun · something that follows... subsequence
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Opposites
prequel
Word family
Derived forms cheapquelfivequelfourquelinterquellegacyquellegasequelmidquelnonsequelpostquelpre-sequelprequelrequel

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