follow

Meanings

Verb

• To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction, especially with the intent of catching.
• To go or come after in a sequence.
• To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).
• To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc).
• To understand, to pay attention to.
• To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person.
• To subscribe to see content from an account on a social media platform.
• To be a logical consequence of something.
• To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.

Noun

• In billiards and similar games, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball after hitting it.
• The act of following another user's online activity.

Origin

• From Middle English folwen, folȝen, folgen, from Old English folgian ("to follow, pursue"), from Proto-West Germanic *folgēn, from Proto-Germanic *fulgāną ("to follow").