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General dictionaries General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. follow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  2. follow: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
  3. follow: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. FOLLOW, Follow, follow: Wordnik [home, info]
  5. follow: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  6. Follow: Wiktionary [home, info]
  7. follow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  8. follow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  9. follow: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  10. follow: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  11. follow: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  12. follow: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  13. follow: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  14. follow: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
  15. follow: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
  16. Follow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  17. follow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  18. follow: Rhymezone [home, info]
  19. follow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  20. follow: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  21. Follow: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
  22. follow: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  23. follow: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  24. follow: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  25. follow: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  26. follow: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  27. follow: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. follow: Glossary of Legal Terms [home, info]
  2. follow: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. follow: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. follow: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  2. follow: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. follow: Idioms [home, info]

Quick definitions (follow)

verb:  adhere to or practice ("These people still follow the laws of their ancient religion")
verb:  accept and follow the leadership or command or guidance of ("Let's follow our great helmsman!")
verb:  come as a logical consequence; follow logically ("It follows that your assertion is false")
verb:  come after in time, as a result ("A terrible tsunami followed the earthquake")
verb:  be next ("Mary plays best, with John and Sue following")
verb:  to bring something about at a later time than ("She followed dinner with a brandy")
verb:  grasp the meaning ("Can you follow her argument?")
verb:  behave in accordance or in agreement with ("Follow a pattern")
verb:  travel along a certain course ("Follow the road")
verb:  to travel behind, go after, come after ("The ducklings followed their mother around the pond")
verb:  keep under surveillance ("The police had been following him for weeks but they could not prove his involvement in the bombing")
verb:  choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans ("She followed the feminist movement")
verb:  work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function
verb:  act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes ("Follow these simple rules")
verb:  to be the product or result
verb:  be later in time ("Tuesday always follows Monday")
verb:  follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something ("We must follow closely the economic development is Cuba")
verb:  imitate in behavior; take as a model ("Teenagers follow their friends in everything")
verb:  follow in or as if in pursuit ("Her bad deed followed her and haunted her dreams all her life")
verb:  be the successor (of) ("Carter followed Ford")
verb:  follow with the eyes or the mind ("She followed the men with the binoculars")
verb:  keep to
verb:  keep informed
verb:  perform an accompaniment to ("The orchestra could barely follow the frequent pitch changes of the soprano")

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Words similar to follow:   accompany, adopt, be, come, comply, espouse, followed, following, observe, postdate, pursue, succeed, survey, trace, watch, work, abide by, come after, conform to, ensue, more...


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