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Entry 4 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Following

/fäl'-ō-ĭng/ · Fol·low·ing · IPA /ˈfɑloʊɪŋ/
01 n. One's followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively.
  1. 1.
    One's followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively.
  2. 2.
    Vocation; business; profession.
02 a. Next after; succeeding; ensuing; as, the assembly was held on the following day.
  1. 1.
    Next after; succeeding; ensuing; as, the assembly was held on the following day.
  2. 2.
    (In the field of a telescope) In the direction from which stars are apparently moving (in consequence of the earth's rotation); as, a small star, north following or south following. In the direction toward which stars appear to move is called preceding.(Astron.)