transitive. To treat or take (a person) as a guide, leader, or master in matters of belief, behaviour, practice, etc.; to accept the authority or…

To imitate, copy. To imitate or follow (conduct, action, manner, fashion). Obsolete.

figurative and in figurative context. to shoot at (with express or implied reference to a metaphorical mark or target): (a) to aim at, to seek to…

figurative. To follow the guidance of (a person, etc.); to imitate (an example); to follow (inclination, passion, etc.), conform to (advice, orders).

transitive. To follow after; figurative to imitate.

to follow suit with: to do the same as. Cf. phrases 2c(b). Obsolete.

Direction given by going in front; example, precedent; esp. in to follow the lead of.