following

1. 1.

   a group of followers or enthusiasts

   Synonymsfollowers

   Broadermultitude

   Narrowerclaquefaithfulfandom
2. 2.

   the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture

   “the culprit started to run and the cop took off in pursuit”

   Synonymspursuitchasepursual

   Broadermotion

   Narrowertrailingshadowingstalk

Other forms of following

plural

followings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about following

What does following mean?

following means "about to be mentioned or specified". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in following?

following has 3 syllables: fol-lo-wing. The stress falls on "fol". In IPA it is /ˈfɑloʊɪŋ/.

What is another word for following?

Close synonyms include undermentioned, next, followers, pursuit, chase. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of following?

The recorded antonyms are leading.

Is following a common word?

following is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.