Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Following in time or order; succeeding.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Following in time; happening or existing at any later time, indefinitely: as, subsequent events; subsequent ages.
- Following in the order of place or succession; succeeding: as, a subsequent clause in a treaty.
- Following as a consequence: as, a subsequent illness after exposure.
- In physical geography developed by headward erosion along a belt of weak strata: noting streams and their valleys that have been so developed.
Wiktionary
- adj. Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely.
- adj. Following in order of place; succeeding.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely.
- adj. Following in order of place; succeeding.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. following in time or order
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old French, from Latin subsequēns, subsequent-, present participle of subsequī, to follow close after : sub-, close after; see sub- + sequī, to follow; see sekw-1 in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“Zaprudering, as the SciFicast explains, is a brand new word subsequent from a Zapruder film, a pledge 8mm movie which is a usually [...]”
“Well, the CIA actually made a referral to the Department of Justice asking it to investigate whether or not a former CIA officer, John Kiriakou, disclosed classified information when he made several media appearances talking about the capture of al Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah and what he described as his subsequent waterboarding.”
“Although crises may be one and the same-what I call the subsequent statements from both President "Uni-Bubble.”
“The idea was a huge hit, and in subsequent years, it spread beyond the Presbyterian Church and into communities throughout the country.”
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“I can just see Anna trying to fix it in subsequent books, causing conflict between them!”
“Bradford: Again, even if you assume they were RNA based that would not explain subsequent causal steps en route to a code.”
“Again, even if you assume they were RNA based that would not explain subsequent causal steps en route to a code.”
“For all his faults, and for all the mistakes he may have made in subsequent years in his term, I honor the former President, George W. Bush, for his leadership on 9/11 and the immediate days following.”
“The good news is that Mr. Pavano has played well in subsequent stops in Cleveland and Minnesota, and the Yankees never again paid an outrageous contract to an overrated pitcher.”
“Tobacco companies also are waging a constitutional attack on using the Engle findings in subsequent suits, contending in state and federal appeals that it violates their due-process rights to be bound by factual findings that they have no opportunity to adequately contest.”
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