postquel
postquel noun: a work of fiction which is set after the events of an earlier installment in a series but is not an immediate sequel.
Noun
postquel (plural postquels)
- A work of fiction which is set after the events of an earlier installment in a series but is not an immediate sequel.
- I heard that Lucas will shoot all three of the prequels at the same time (like the last two Back To The Future movies were filmed together). The first prequel is shooting for '97 or '98 release. As to when the 'postquels' will be written, shot and released is anybody's guess. I just hope that...1995 December 9, Michael Wolf, “Re: Sequel too???”, in rec.arts.sf.starwars.misc (Usenet)
- In musicals, when they are not unabashedly revivals, the assumption seems to be all we need do is find appropriate chunks of recent, or not-so-recent, history and cleverly reformulate them. Remakes, re-dos, sequels, prequels, and postquels are all the rage in films, TV, and on the stage.2001, Charles Marowitz, Stage Dust: A Critic's Cultural Scrapbook from the 1990s, Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 23
Forms of postquel
| plural | postquels |
|---|
Origin of postquel
Either blend of post + sequel or from post- (“after”) + quel, by synonym with sequel.
Questions about postquel
- What does postquel mean?
- Postquel means a work of fiction which is set after the events of an earlier installment in a series but is not an immediate sequel.
- What part of speech is postquel?
- Postquel is a noun.
- What is the plural of postquel?
- The plural of postquel is postquels.
Words near postquel in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: postquel (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.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “postquel.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/postquel. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.