meaning of following
1. Ones followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively.
2. Vocation; business; profession.
3. Next after; succeeding; ensuing; as, the assembly was held on the following day.
4. (In the field of a telescope) In the direction from which stars are apparently moving (in consequence of the earths rotation); as, a small star, north following or south following. In the direction toward which stars appear to move is called preceding.
5. of Follow
6. the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture; "the culprit started to run and the cop took off in
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