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sequel

nounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈsiːkwəl//

A narrative that is written after another narrative set in the same universe, especially a narrative that is chronologically set after its predecessors, or (perhaps improper usage) any narrative that has a preceding narrative of its own.

noun

  1. 1

    datedThe events, collectively, which follow a previously mentioned event; the aftermath.

    Now here Chriſtian was worſe put to it then in his fight with Apollyon, as by the ſequel you ſhall ſee.

    In its sixty-year history here, some 4,170 engines of the 4-6-0 type have been constructed. This is the vast sequel of that bold experimental step of the Highland Railway in 1894.

  2. 2

    A narrative that is written after another narrative set in the same universe, especially a narrative that is chronologically set after its predecessors, or (perhaps improper usage) any narrative that has a preceding narrative of its own.

  3. 3

    A narrative that is written after another narrative set in the same universe, especially a narrative that is chronologically set after its predecessors, or (perhaps improper usage) any narrative that has a preceding narrative of its own. Synonym of postquel; a narrative work that follows-on and is set after an prior existing work.

  4. 4

    Any text that continues on from another text.

    It greatly resembles the Rabbinical account of the origin of the Mazckeen, which the reader will meet in the sequel.

  5. 5

    The remainder of the text; what follows. Used exclusively in the set phrase "in the sequel".

    In the sequel we restrict ourselves to “nice” cases without going into details about the nicety conditions which have to be fulfilled (see, e.g., Freudenthal [1]).

  6. 6

    historicalThirlage.

  7. 7

    obsoleteA person's descendants.

Etymology

From Middle English sequele, sequelle, sequile, from Middle French sequele, sequelle and its etymon, Latin sequēla, from sequī (“to follow”). Doublet of sequela.

Forms

plural
sequels
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).