Sequel

Quick meaning: Sequel is a noun meaning Any text that continues on from another text.

Meaning

Any text that continues on from another text.

More Meanings

1. (mathematics) The remainder of the text; what follows. Used exclusively in the set phrase "in the sequel".
2. (Scotland, historical) Thirlage.
3. (narratology) 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.
4. (dated) The events, collectively, which follow a previously mentioned event; the aftermath.
5. (obsolete) A person's descendants.

Example Sentences

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

It greatly resembles the Rabbinical account of the origin of the Mazckeen, which the reader will meet 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]).

In its sixty-year history here, some 4,170 engines of the 4-6-0 type have been constructed. This is the vast sequel of that bold experimental step of the Highland Railway in 1894.

Word Forms

• sequels

Synonyms for sequel

Depending on context, synonyms include postquel, continuation, subsequence.

Antonyms for sequel

Common opposites include prequel.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include subsequence, continuation, follow-up, following, consequential, consequence.

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