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follow

English

  1. 🔊 behave in accordance or in agreement with
    “Follow a pattern”
  2. 🔊 grasp the meaning
    “Can you follow her argument?”
  3. 🔊 travel along a certain course
    “follow the road”
  4. 🔊 to travel behind, go after, come after
    “The ducklings followed their mother around the pond”
  5. 🔊 adhere to or practice
    “These people still follow the laws of their ancient religion”
  6. 🔊 accept and follow the leadership or command or guidance of
    “Let's follow our great helmsman!”
  7. 🔊 come as a logical consequence
    “It follows that your assertion is false”
  8. 🔊 come after in time, as a result
    “A terrible tsunami followed the earthquake”
  9. 🔊 be next
    “Mary plays best, with John and Sue following”
  10. 🔊 to bring something about at a later time than
    “She followed dinner with a brandy”
  11. 🔊 follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something
    “We must follow closely the economic development is Cuba”
  12. 🔊 imitate in behavior
    “Teenagers follow their friends in everything”
  13. 🔊 follow in or as if in pursuit
    “The police car pursued the suspected attacker”
  14. 🔊 keep under surveillance
    “The police had been following him for weeks but they could not prove his involvement in the bombing”
  15. 🔊 choose and follow
    “She followed the feminist movement”
  16. 🔊 work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function
    “He is a herpetologist”
  17. 🔊 act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes
    “He complied with my instructions”
  18. 🔊 to be the product or result
    “Melons come from a vine”
  19. 🔊 be later in time
    “Tuesday always follows Monday”
  20. 🔊 keep informed
    “He kept up on his country's foreign policies”
  21. 🔊 keep to
    “Stick to your principles”
  22. 🔊 perform an accompaniment to
    “The orchestra could barely follow the frequent pitch changes of the soprano”
  23. 🔊 be the successor (of)
    “Carter followed Ford”
  24. 🔊 follow with the eyes or the mind
    “Keep an eye on the baby, please!”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 seguir to follow
  2. 🔊 seguir to follow, to be followed
  3. 🔊 seguir to follow, observe, to obey (a rule, religion)
  4. 🔊 seguir to follow, to pursue, to track, to trace, to tail, to chase

Similar words

keep up keep abreast conform to stick to stick with trace play along accompany take after travel along pursue surveil survey adopt espouse succeed come after be watch observe watch over keep an eye on comply abide by