0 past simple and past participle of follow
1 to move behind someone or something and go where he, she, or it goes:
She followed me into the kitchen.
He had the feeling he was being followed (= someone was going after him to catch him or see where he was going).
I could feel them following me with their eyes (= watching my movements closely).
Do your own thing, don't just follow the crowd (= do what everyone else does).
When one airline reduces its prices, the rest soon follow suit.
2 to happen or come after something:
We were not prepared for the events that followed (= happened next).
The book was delivered yesterday with a note saying the bill for it would follow in a day or two.
The meal consisted of spinach salad, followed by roast chicken (= with this as the next part).
She published a book of poems and followed it (up) with (= next produced) a novel.
The winners are as follows - Woods, Smith, and Cassidy.
4 to have a great interest in something or watch something closely:
5 to happen as a result, or to be a likely result:
[ + that ] Just because I agreed last time, it doesn't necessarily follow that I will again.
6 to understand something as it is being said or done:
His lecture was complicated and difficult to follow.
7 to read the notes or words of a piece of music or writing at the same time as they are being played or said
8 If you follow a particular person on a social media website (= a website where people can publish their thoughts, photographs, information about themselves etc.), you choose to see everything that person posts (= publishes) on the website.
He made no answer but walked on, gesturing for me to follow.
The dogs are specially trained to follow the trail left by the fox.
The path follows the river closely, occasionally deviating round a clump of trees.
In the silence that followed, a lone voice piped up from the back of the room.
The women's 200 metre event will be followed by the men's 100 metres.
The initial earthquake was followed by a series of aftershocks.
