sequel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
narratology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English sequele, sequelle, sequile, from Middle French sequele, sequelle and its etymon, Latin sequēla, from sequī (“to follow”). Doublet of sequela.
Inflected forms:
form: sequels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The events, collectively, which follow a previously mentioned event; the aftermath.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: 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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: Any text that continues on from another text.
pos: noun
examples: It greatly resembles the Rabbinical account of the origin of the Mazckeen, which the reader will meet in the sequel.
gloss: The remainder of the text; what follows. Used exclusively in the set phrase "in the sequel".
pos: noun
examples: 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]).
gloss: Thirlage.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
historical
gloss: A person's descendants.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Synonyms: postquel
Antonyms: prequel
Derived words: 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
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: продължение
roman: prodǎlženie
lang: Catalan
word: seqüela
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 續集 /续集
roman: xùjí
lang: Dutch
word: vervolg
lang: Esperanto
word: daŭrigo
lang: Esperanto
word: sekvaĵo
lang: Finnish
word: jatko-osa
lang: French
word: suite
lang: German
word: Fortsetzung
lang: German
word: Folge
lang: Greek
word: συνέχεια
roman: synécheia
lang: Hebrew
word: המשך
roman: hemsheikh
lang: Indonesian
word: sekuel
lang: Italian
word: seguito
lang: Japanese
word: 続編
roman: zokuhen
lang: Japanese
word: 続き
roman: tsuzuki
lang: Korean
word: 후편
roman: hupyeon
lang: Korean
word: 속편
roman: sokpyeon
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: berdewamî
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: dûmahî
lang: Latin
word: consequentia narrativa
lang: Malay
word: susulan
lang: Malay
word: sekuel
lang: Māori
word: paki ahumuri
lang: Māori
word: whakahiku
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: oppfølger
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: oppfølgar
lang: Polish
word: sequel
lang: Portuguese
word: sequência
lang: Portuguese
word: continuação
lang: Portuguese
word: sequela
lang: Russian
word: продолже́ние
roman: prodolžénije
lang: Russian
word: си́квел
roman: síkvɛl
lang: Slovak
word: pokračovanie
lang: Slovak
word: diel
lang: Slovak
word: epizóda
lang: Spanish
word: secuela
lang: Swedish
word: uppföljare
lang: Tagalog
word: kasumunod