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followed on

followed on is the simple past and past participle of follow on.

Meaning of follow on

Verb

follow on (third-person singular simple present follows on, present participle following on, simple past and past participle followed on)

  1. To follow in sequence; to come next.
    • The new film follows on from the storyline of the original 1970s release.
    Synonyms:
    come after
  2. To bat their second innings immediately after their first innings.

Questions about followed on

What is followed on the simple past and past participle of?
Followed on is the simple past and past participle of follow on.

Words near followed on in the dictionary

  1. followe
  2. followed
  3. followed along
  4. followed by
  5. followed in someone's footsteps
  6. followed on
  7. followed one's heart
  8. followed one's nose
  9. followed someone off a cliff
  10. followed someone to the ends of the earth
  11. followed someone to the ends of the world

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Adapted from Wiktionary: followed on (page history and authors); follow on (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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