Usually means: To go or come after.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. follow: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. follow, follow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. follow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. follow: Collins English Dictionary
  5. follow: Vocabulary.com
  6. Follow, follow: Wordnik
  7. follow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. follow: Wiktionary
  9. follow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. follow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. follow: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. follow: Dictionary.com
  13. follow: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. follow: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Follow (album), Follow (disambiguation), Follow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Follow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. follow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. follow: Rhymezone
  19. follow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. follow: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Follow: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. follow: Free Dictionary
  23. follow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. follow: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. follow: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. follow: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. follow: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. follow: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. follow: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. follow: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction, especially with the intent of catching.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To go or come after in a sequence.
verb:  (transitive) To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).
verb:  (transitive) To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc).
verb:  (transitive) To understand, to pay attention to.
verb:  (transitive) To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person.
verb:  (social media, transitive) To subscribe to see content from an account on a social media platform.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To be a logical consequence of something.
verb:  (transitive) To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
noun:  (sometimes attributive) In billiards and similar games, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball after hitting it.
noun:  (social media) The act of following another user's online activity.

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