follow-on

1. 1.

   an immediate second innings forced on a cricket team scoring a prescribed number of runs fewer than its opponents in the first innings

   Broaderinnings

Questions about follow-on

What does follow-on mean?

follow-on means "an immediate second innings forced on a cricket team scoring a prescribed number of runs fewer than its opponents in the first innings".

How many syllables are in follow-on?

follow-on has 3 syllables and divides as fol-lo-w-on under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is follow-on a common word?

follow-on is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.