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following on

following on is the present participle and gerund 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 following on

What is following on the present participle and gerund of?
Following on is the present participle and gerund of follow on.

Words near following on in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: following 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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