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distant sequels

distant sequels is the plural of distant sequel.

Meaning of distant sequel

Noun

distant sequel (plural distant sequels)

  1. (uncommon) A sequel that continues the story of an earlier work but is set much later in the same fictional timeline, often years, decades, or even centuries after the orignal.
    • Without that distant sequel, the memory may appear as meaningless as the book; but for the moment I can only leave on record here the two facts to which I managed somehow and in some sense to testify.1936, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Autobiography, page 102

Questions about distant sequels

What is distant sequels the plural of?
Distant sequels is the plural of distant sequel.

Words near distant sequels in the dictionary

  1. distannylenes
  2. distannyne
  3. distannynes
  4. distant
  5. distant sequel
  6. distant sequels
  7. distant signal
  8. distant signals
  9. distant starlight problem
  10. distantial
  11. distantiate

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