sequel

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The events, collectively, which follow a previously mentioned event

   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.
   • 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.
2. 2

   A narrative that is written after another narrative set in the same universe, especially…

   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.

3. 3

   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.
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   1. 4

      The remainder of the text

      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]).
   2. 5

      Thirlage.

   3. 6

      A person's descendants.

The neighborhood

• synonympostquelnarrative follow-up set after an earlier work
• antonymprequelnarrative follow-up set after an earlier work