SEQUEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sequel mean? 

• SEQUEL (noun)
  The noun SEQUEL has 2 senses:

1. something that follows something else

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

  Familiarity information: SEQUEL used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEQUEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something that follows something else

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

sequel; subsequence

Hypernyms ("sequel" is a kind of...):

final result; outcome; result; resultant; termination (something that results)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

continuation; sequel

Hypernyms ("sequel" is a kind of...):

addendum; postscript; supplement (textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end)

 Context examples 

But I suspect it is the sequel of the story of the statues.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Besides, since yesterday I have experienced the excitement of a person to whom a tale has been half-told, and who is impatient to hear the sequel.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, however.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And yet it was all over in a flash, and there was no sequel to it, save in our own convictions.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The sequel to the strange arrival of the derelict in the storm last night is almost more startling than the thing itself.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

On the very day, however, before I left, an incident occurred which proved in the sequel to be of importance.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

EXAMPLE(S): decomposition (component), pre-condition, post-condition, sequel (replaces, modifies), attribution (cause and effect).

(Document Version Relationship Type Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

There were grave events afoot, as the sequel showed, and the coaxing of Scott Eccles to Wisteria Lodge had some connection with them.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How graciously Amy criticized the artistic parts of the story, and offered hints for a sequel, which unfortunately couldn't be carried out, as the hero and heroine were dead.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)