follow
/ˈfɑloʊ/ verb A2- To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction, especially with the intent of catching. · Follow that car!· She left the room and I followed.
- To go or come after in a sequence. · B follows A in the alphabet.· We both ordered the soup, with roast beef to follow.
- To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.). · Follow these instructions to the letter.
- To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc).
- To understand, to pay attention to. · Do you follow me?
- To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person. · I followed the incumbent throughout the election.· My friends don't regularly follow the news.
- To be a supporter of (a sports team).
- To subscribe to see content from an account on a social media platform. · If you want to see more of our articles, follow us on Twitter.
Plural follow · He/she/it follows · Past followed · Past participle followed · -ing form following
Verb forms
- Base form
- follow
- He/she/it
- follows
- Past
- followed
- Past participle
- followed
- -ing form
- following
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Come, come,” continued he, patting Edmond’s shoulder kindly, “you did very right, Dantès, to follow Captain Leclere’s instructions, and touch at Elba, although if it were known that you had conveyed a packet to the marshal, and had conversed with the emperor, it might bring you into trouble.”
Dorothy caught Toto at last and started to follow her aunt.
The shipowner, smiling, followed him with his eyes until he saw him spring out on the quay and disappear in the midst of the throng, which from five o’clock in the morning until nine o’clock at night, swarms in the famous street of La Canebière,—a street of which the modern Phocéens are so proud that they say with all the gravity in the world, and with that accent which gives so much character to what is said, “If Paris had La Canebière, Paris would be a second Marseilles.” On turning round the owner saw Danglars behind him, apparently awaiting orders, but in reality also watching the young sailor,—but there was a great difference in the expression of the two men who thus followed the movements of Edmond Dantès.
We will leave Danglars struggling with the demon of hatred, and endeavoring to insinuate in the ear of the shipowner some evil suspicions against his comrade, and follow Dantès, who, after having traversed La Canebière, took the Rue de Noailles, and entering a small house, on the left of the Allées de Meilhan, rapidly ascended four flights of a dark staircase, holding the baluster with one hand, while with the other he repressed the beatings of his heart, and paused before a half-open door, from which he could see the whole of a small room.
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