noun vocation; business; profession.
2. following ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of follow.
3. following ·noun one's followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively.
4. following ·adj next after; succeeding; ensuing; as, the assembly was held on the following day.
5. following ·adj (in the field of a telescope) in the direction from which stars are apparently moving (in consequence of the earth's rotation); as, a small star, north following or south following. in the direction toward which stars appear to move is called preceding.