ONE AFTER ANOTHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does one after another mean? 

• ONE AFTER ANOTHER (adverb)
  The adverb ONE AFTER ANOTHER has 1 sense:

1. following one another in quick succession

  Familiarity information: ONE AFTER ANOTHER used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ONE AFTER ANOTHER (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Following one another in quick succession

Synonyms:

one after another; one after the other

 Context examples 

She called them one after another by name, but no one answered.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I was myself half stunned and looked in wonder at one after another.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I felt in his pockets, one after another.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

One after another they went down, and there were not half-a-dozen surviving by the time my companion and I could come to their help.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It rises and falls in waves that pass one after another.

(Song of the red rock arches, National Science Foundation)

I will explain how a confluence of events stacked up, one after another, to make October harder than usual for many people.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

We'll go over 'em one after another. We'll make some regular Arabian Nights of it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Presently the chambers gave up their fair tenants one after another: each came out gaily and airily, with dress that gleamed lustrous through the dusk.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He had frequently observed, as he walked, that one handsome face would be followed by thirty, or five-and-thirty frights; and once, as he had stood in a shop on Bond Street, he had counted eighty-seven women go by, one after another, without there being a tolerable face among them.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

One after another the rest followed his example, each making a salute as he passed, each adding some apology.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)