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Following
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Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. One's followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively. Macaulay.
2. Vocation; business; profession.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
1. Next after; succeeding; ensuing; as, the assembly was held on the following day.
2. (In the field of a telescope) In the direction from which stars are apparently moving (in consequence of the erth's rotation); as, a small star, north following or south following. In the direction toward which stars appear to move is called preceding.