sequel
noun/ˈsiːkwəl/
Etymology From Middle English sequele, sequelle, sequile, from Middle French sequele, sequelle and its etymon, Latin sequēla, from sequī (“to follow”). Doublet of sequela.
7 senses
Dated The 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.1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, page 75:
- 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 1894.1954 November, Frank Hewitt, “The First Decade of British 4-6-0 Locomotives—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 747:
Human sciences, Linguistics, Narratology, Sciences 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.
Human sciences, Linguistics, Narratology, Sciences Synonym of postquel; a narrative work that follows-on and is set after an prior existing work.
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.1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 159:
Mathematics, Sciences 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]).1964, Hans Freudenthal, “Lie Groups in the Foundations of Geometry”, in Advances in Mathematics, volume 1, number 2, page 146:
Scotland, Historical Thirlage.
Obsolete A person's descendants.
- Synonyms
- postquel
- Antonyms
- prequel
- Derived terms
29 terms
cheapquel, direct sequel, distant sequel, fivequel, fourquel, interquel, legacyquel, legacy sequel, legasequel, midquel, nonsequel, postquel, prequel, pre-sequel, -quel, requel, sequel hook, sequelisation, sequelise, sequelitis, sequelization, sequelize, sidequel, spinquel, spiritual sequel, squeakquel, threequel, trequel, unsequeled