Sequel

Definitions: Sequel

Sequel

Noun

1. Something that follows something else.

2. A part added to a book or play that continues and extends it.

Date "sequel" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Computing	Sequel 1. Precursor to SQL. ["System R: Relational Approach to Database Management", IBM Res Lab, San Jose, reprinted in Readings in Database Systems]. 2. U Leeds. Theorem prover specification language. Pattern matching notation similar to Prolog. Compiled into Lisp. [Proc ICJAI 13]. (ftp://agora.leeds.ac.uk/scs/logic/). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A sequel is a work of literature or film that is written after another one, and is set in the same "universe" but at a later time. It usually continues elements of the first story, often with the same characters, although this is not always the case - for example, if the main character dies at the end of the first work, a new character (e.g. their son or daughter) may take up their role in the sequel.

An example of a sequel is the novel Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling. Since it is the second book in the series, and follows Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, it is its sequel. Movies also often have sequels.

Often sequels criticized as artistically inferior works often simply repeat the story of the original film. However, sometimes a sequel gives an oppurtunity to address weaknesses in the original. For instance, the film Star Trek: The Motion Picture was panned as overlong, boring and short on character play. In reaction, Paramount Films hired Harve Bennett to produce a sequel that addresses the criticisms and he produced Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan which is considered one of the best films of the series.

The movie industry invented the word prequel to describe something that comes before what has already been seen - i.e., the reverse of a sequel. Star Wars is the best-known film that has multiple prequels. The story that comes between two previously published works is called an interquel.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
SEQUEL	English	Structured English Query Language	Computing
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Sequel

Synonyms: continuation (n), subsequence (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Posteriority	Noun: posteriority; succession, sequence; following.; subsequence, supervention; futurity; successor; sequel; remainder, reversion.
	Adverb: subsequently, after, afterwards, since, later; at a subsequent, at a later period, at a later date; next, in the sequel, close upon, thereafter, thereupon, upon which, eftsoons; from that time, from that moment; after a while, after a time; in process of time.
Sequel	Noun: sequel, suffix, successor; tail, queue, train, wake, trail, rear; retinue, suite; appendix, postscript; epilogue; peroration; codicil; continuation, sequela; appendage; tail piece, heelpiece; tag, more last words; colophon.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Sequel

English words defined with "sequel": Consecution ♦ Law of universal causation ♦ wellerism. (references)

Specialty definitions using "sequel": Corneal Neovascularization ♦ Fudge Family ♦ HAL ♦ Office By Example ♦ Toxoplasmosis, Ocular. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I wanna be in the sequel! (Scream; writing credit: Kevin Williamson) Tell me, Chuck, ever thought of starring in a sequel to The Ten Commandments? (Space Ghost Coast to Coast; writing credit: Ben Karlin) They want me to do a sequel. (Orgazmo; writing credit: Trey Parker)
Movie/TV Titles	Sequel to the Diamond from the Sky (1916) Riven: The Sequel to Myst (1997) A Very Brady Sequel (1996) Where the Girls Sweat: Not the Sequel (1996) Friends & Lovers: The Sequel (1991)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Harriet Spies Again (Harriet the Spy Sequel 1) (reference) Leaving Cold Sassy: The Unfinished Sequel to Cold Sassy (reference) Official Riven: The Sequel to Myst, Player's Guide (Bradygames Strategy Guide) (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Nunsense 2: The Sequel (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Mad About The Movies (The Sequel) (reference) Sequel (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Riven: The Sequel To Myst (reference) The 11th Hour The Sequel to 7th Guest (reference) Riven: The Sequel to Myst DVD-ROM (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods	Sequel II Satin Flatware Set (20-pc.) (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The modern Circe or a sequel to the petticoat / E. Delaney del. ; Cruickshank scp.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	But I moreover affirm, that all men are naturally in that state, and remain so, till by their own consents they make themselves members of some politic society; and I doubt not in the sequel of this discourse, to make it very clear. (Second Treatise of Government)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	He knew that the tale was a prelude and his mind waited for the sequel.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Sequel" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.48% of the time. "Sequel" is used about 238 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	97.48%	232	19,713
Noun (proper)	1.68%	4	175,879
Lexical Verb (base form)	0.84%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	238	N/A

Expression using "sequel": in the sequel. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "sequel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		vazhdim (carrying-on, continuance, continuation, course, elongation, extension, follow up, persistence, persistency, resumption), pasojë (after effect, aftermath, consequence, Dent, harvest, offspring, prejudice, reflex, result, train, wage). (various references)

Arabic		‏نتيجة (conclusion, consequence, echo, effect, emanation, end, event, fruit, offshoot, offspring, outcome, payoff, precipitate, product, progeny, purpose, ramification, repercussion, result, score, termination, upshot, work), ‏تكملة (complement, completeness, supplement), ‏تتمة (complements), ‏عاقبة (consequence, ramification, wage), ‏ذيل (annexation, append, appendage, tail, tailpiece, trail, underwrite), ‏آثار (monuments). (various references)

Bulgarian		резултат (aftermath, conclusion, consequent, count, effect, end, event, harvest, issuance, offspring, outcome, outgrowth, produce, product, progeny, purpose, result, score), продължение (elongation, prolongation, protraction), последствие (after effect, consequence, consequent, outcome), последица (after effect, backwash, consequence, effect, follow up, issue, offspring, outgrowth, progeny, ramification, repercussion, result, train, upshot). (various references)

Chinese		续集. (various references)

Czech		pokraèování (continuation, elongation, episode, going on, resumption), dùsledek (consequence, corollary, implication, inference, ramification, result). (various references)

Danish		Structured Query Language, SQL. (various references)

Dutch		SQL. (various references)

Farsi		پی ایند (Consequent), پایان (Cessation, Close, End, Godspeed, Limit, Period, Point, Terminal), نتیجه (Affect, Consequence, Effect, Growth, Harvest, Hatch, Outcome, Outgrwth, Resolution, Rest, Result, Success, Upshot), عقبه , خاتمه (Closure, End, Expiry), انجام (Accomplishment, Commission, Compietion, Godspeed, Implement, Implementation, Transaction), دنباله (Appendix, Stem, Suite, Tail, Trail, Train). (various references)

Finnish		SQL. (various references)

French		suite (sequence, series). (various references)

German		Folge (aftereffect, consequence, consistency, effect, episode, installment, issue, order, outgrowth, progression, result, run, sequence, sequitur, series, string, succession, suite, train), Nachspiel (repercussion). (various references)

Greek		SQL, συνέχεια (consecutively, consecutiveness, contiguity, continuation, continuity, continuousness), επακόλουθο (after effect, aftereffect, after-effects, aftermath, consecutive, consequence, resultant, sequelae), Σήκουελ, δομημένη γλώσσα ερωτημάτων. (various references)

Hebrew		תול�"�" (begetting, birth, conclusion, consequence, corollary, offspring, outcome, procreation, result, upshot), תוצא�" (aftermath, consequence, effect, outcome, product, result, termination, upshot), עלילת �"משך, �"משך (continuance, continuation, installment, prolongation, resumption, sequence). (various references)

Hungarian		fejlemény (development, growth), következmény (aftermath, attendant, consequence, corollary, effect, entailment, inference, outcome, recoil, result, sequelae, succeeding, success, upshot), folytatás (carrying-on, continuance, continuation, prosecution, pursuance, resumption, sequence). (various references)

Italian		seguito (adherents, continuation, cortege, disciples, escort, followers, following, party, retinue, succession, suite, supporters, train). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		続篇 (supplementary volume), 続稿 , 続き (continuation, second series, spell, succession), 後編 (latter part), 後日談 , 余談 (digression), 余波 (after-effect, aftermath, consequence, secondary effect, trail), 先 (destination, end, former, head, late, nozzle, objective, old, point, precedence, previous, prior, priority, remainder, the first priority, the future, the other party, tip), 姉妹編 (companionvolume). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぞくへ�" (continuation, supplementary volume), ぞっ�"う (resuming), しまいへ�" (companionvolume), さき (destination, end, following, former, head, nozzle, objective, point, previous, prior, remainder, small peninsula, the first priority, the future, the other party, tip, undermentioned), つづき (continuation, second series, spell, succession), �"じつ� �", �"うへ�" (around one's lips, cirrhosis, latter part, latter part or volume, public affairs, public ceremonies), よは (after-effect, aftermath, consequence, secondary effect, trail), よ� �" (conclusion, digression, guessing, prediction). (various references)

Korean		후편. (various references)

Manx		eiyrtys (after-effects, aftermath, consequence, effect, outcome, pursuit, repercussion, result). (various references)

Pig Latin		equelsay

Portuguese		seqüência (chain, continuation, flush, Ling, order, prose, scale, sequence, series, track), seguimento (follow, follow-up, pursuance, sequence, tracking), resultado (aftermath, attainment, conclusion, consequent, count, effect, end, fruit, harvest, kismet, outcome, produce, prognathous, pursuance, reflex, result, spawn), continuação (continuance, continuation, continuity, follow-up, process, prolongation, prosecution, resumption), conseqüência (aftermath, conclusion, consecution, consequence, consistency, effect, fruit, import, important, inference, outcome, product, progeny, result). (various references)

Romanian		urmare a unei nuvele, urmare (consequence, continuation, effect, end, following, fruit, outcome, result, succession), continuare (abidance, continuance, continuation, prosecution), consecinţã (aftermath, consequence, issue, result, upshot), adaos (accession, addendum, addition, adjunct, adjunction, admixture, alloy, amplification, annex, appendage, appendix, attachment, augmentation, codicil, increase, make-weight, rider, rise, schedule, supplement). (various references)

Russian		результат (action, after-effect, conclusion, effect, end-product, event, fruit, offspring, outcome, produce, progeny, purpose, result, ultimation, upshot). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		produženje (elongation, lengthening, prolongation, renewal), nastavak (extension, follow up, imp, installment, instalment, suffix). (various references)

Spanish		continuación (carrying-on, continuance, continuation, follow, follow-up, ongoing, prosecution, resumption). (various references)

Swedish		fortsättning (continuation, continuing, proceeding), efterspel (epilogue, postlude). (various references)

Thai		เรื่องราวที่ติ�"ตามมา. (various references)

Turkish		sonuç (aftermath, close, conclusion, consequence, consequent, corollary, decision, deduction, denouement, effect, end, event, finding, fruit, harvest, inference, issue, joy, outcome, payoff, produce, product, result, resultant, show, success, sum, upshot), sonrası (post-), sonra (after, afterward, afterwards, behind, following, later, next, post-, subsequent to, subsequently, thereafter), netice (conclusion, consequence, consequent, effect, result, sum, upshot), devam (attendance, continuation, continue, continued existance, duration, endurance, follow through, permanence, permanency, perpetuation, progression, prosecution, pursuance, steadiness). (various references)

Ukranian		наслідок (after effect, conclusion, consequence, consequent, corollary, effect, event, heritage, offspring, outcome, outgrowth, produce, progeny, sequence), продовження (continuance, continuation, elongation, ongoing, production, prolongation, protraction, resumption). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự tiếp tục (continuance, continuation), sự suy diễn lôgic như tình hình diễn biến sau đó, kết luận (inference), ảnh hưởng kết quả, đoạn tiếp. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Late Latin	300-700	sequela. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "sequel": sequela, sequelae, sequels. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Sequel" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chequed, Dequeen, equel, Esquirla, sacque, saqqo, Secil, secquel, seeque, segel, Seguel, sekwel, sequa, sequal, seque, sequed, sequela, sequen, sequey, sequi, sequiel, sequil, sequor, Sesques, Seuil, seuill, seule, Seurel, sexuel, sheqel, Sikel, sqeel, squeel, squel, squell, squil, squl, Zekel. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "sequel" (pronounced sē"kwul)
5	-ē" k w u l	coequal, equal, unequal.
4	-k w u l	tranquil.
3	-w u l	actual, bilingual, casual, heterosexual, homosexual, individual, monolingual, multilingual, mutual, perceptual, semiannual, sensual, spiritual, textual, unusual, usual, visual.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-l-q-s-u"
	-2 letters: eels, else, lees, lues, seel, slue.
	-3 letters: eel, els, lee, leu, see, sel, sue, suq, use.
	-4 letters: el, es, us.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-l-q-s-u"
	+1 letter: sequela, sequels.
	+2 letters: equalise, prequels, quellers, quezales, reliques, sequelae, squalene, squealed, squealer, squilgee.
	+3 letters: burlesque, equalised, equaliser, equalises, equalizes, liquefies, miquelets, quenelles, quetzales, squalenes, squealers, squelched, squelcher, squelches, squilgeed, squilgees.
	+4 letters: aquarelles, burlesqued, burlesquer, burlesques, deliquesce, eloquences, equalisers, equalities, equalizers, lacquerers, liquefiers, liquescent, quadplexes, quarrelers, queenliest, quenchless, relacquers, sequential, squeezable, squelchers, squelchier, squirreled.
	+5 letters: bequeathals, blanquettes, burlesquely, burlesquers, delinquents, deliquesced, deliquesces, equableness, equivalents, exquisitely, grotesquely, obliqueness, plateresque, quarrellers, quarrelsome, quarterlies, queenliness, quiescently, reliquaries, reliquefies, requalifies, roquelaures, squelchiest, squilgeeing, squirrelled.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 65 71 75 65 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

... . --.- ..- . .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100101 01110001 01110101 01100101 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#101 &#113 &#117 &#101 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0065 0071 0075 0065 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
sequel	124	gone with the wind sequel	15
man sequel spider	69	ape planet sequel	13
angelas ash sequel	66	upcoming movie sequel	13
movie sequel	62	doo scooby sequel	12
hearts kingdom sequel	56	man movie sequel spider	12
a very brady sequel	41	dumb dumber sequel	12
meet parent sequel	40	old school sequel	11
evil movie resident sequel	37	10th kingdom sequel	10
boondock saint sequel	34	pride and prejudice sequel	10
bridget diary jones sequel	31	nimh sequel unauthorized	10
bridget jones sequel	30	sequel upcoming	10
sequel server	29	the goonies sequel	9
evil resident sequel	26	ferro sequel	9
ring sequel	22	sequel shrek	9
diamox sequel	20	eleven ocean sequel	9
matrix sequel	20	angel charlies sequel	8
1971 literary sequel	19	riven sequel to myst	8
7 fantasy final sequel	19	bring it sequel	8
sequel typee	16	ginger sequel snap	8
hulk sequel	16	fast furious sequel	8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Sequel

Definitions: Sequel

Sequel

Noun

Specialty Definitions: Sequel

Specialty Definition: Sequel

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Sequel

SEQUEL

Synonyms: Sequel

Synonyms within Context: Sequel

Posteriority

Sequel

Crosswords: Sequel

Modern Usage: Sequel

Screenplays

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Sequel

Books

Theater & Movies

Music

High Tech

Consumer Goods

Photo Album: Sequel

Historic Usage: Sequel

John Locke

Use in Literature: Sequel

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Usage Frequency: Sequel

Expression: Sequel

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sequel

Modern Translations: Sequel

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Ancestral Language Translations: Sequel

Derivations & Misspellings: Sequel

Derivations

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Sequel"

Anagrams: Sequel

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Sequel

53 65 71 75 65 6C

... . --.- ..- . .-..

01010011 01100101 01110001 01110101 01100101 01101100

&#83 &#101 &#113 &#117 &#101 &#108

0053 0065 0071 0075 0065 006C

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