one after another

1. 1.

   following one another in quick succession

   Synonymsone after the other

Questions about one after another

What does one after another mean?

one after another means "following one another in quick succession".

What is another word for one after another?

Close synonyms include one after the other. 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.

Is one after another a common word?

one after another 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.