one after the other

1. 1.

   following one another in quick succession

   Synonymsone after another

Questions about one after the other

What does one after the other mean?

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

What is another word for one after the other?

Close synonyms include one after another. 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 the other a common word?

one after the other 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.