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Rear   /rɪr/   Listen
Rear

adjective
1.
Located in or toward the back or rear.  Synonym: rearward.  "The rear door of the plane" , "On the rearward side"
noun
1.
The back of a military formation or procession.  Antonym: head.
2.
The side of an object that is opposite its front.  Synonyms: back end, backside.  Antonym: front.
3.
The part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer.  Synonym: back.  "It was hidden in the rear of the store"  Antonym: front.
4.
The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.  Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush.  "Are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"
5.
The side that goes last or is not normally seen.  Synonym: back.  Antonym: front.
verb
(past & past part. reared; pres. part. rearing)
1.
Stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds.  Synonym: rise up.
2.
Bring up.  Synonyms: bring up, nurture, parent, raise.  "Bring up children"
3.
Rise up.  Synonyms: lift, rise.
4.
Cause to rise up.  Synonym: erect.
5.
Construct, build, or erect.  Synonyms: erect, put up, raise, set up.  Antonym: level.



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"Rear" Quotes from Famous Books



... the force at his command to sustain the fight, he led the others quickly by a detour to the rear of the Indians, on whom he fell with such energy that the savages, believing themselves overtaken by reinforcements newly come, fled in confusion. When the victors returned to the village the unknown champion signed to the company to ...
— Myths And Legends Of Our Own Land, Complete • Charles M. Skinner
... tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost: there you lie, For pavement to the abject rear, o'errun ...
— Thoughts on Man - His Nature, Productions and Discoveries, Interspersed with - Some Particulars Respecting the Author • William Godwin
... first afternoon the boys crossed the swampy jungle in the rear of the old plantation and found themselves on a typical South Florida prairie. On it were oases of fire-blackened palmettos, little ponds, palmetto scrub and bits of soggy meadow, in which they often sank to their knees, as they plodded across them. There were tracks of wild animals in the ...
— Dick in the Everglades • A. W. Dimock
... be in the rear of a saloon, or over a saloon; it may occupy a vacant store building, or a large loft. Somewhere in its immediate vicinity there is a saloon. A dance lasts about five minutes, and the interval between dances is from ten to twenty minutes. Waiters circle among the ...
— What eight million women want • Rheta Childe Dorr
... but I'll see, if you will step in?" and he ushered me into a small room at the rear of the house, a cosy but plainly-furnished little sitting-room, wherein a wood fire burned ...
— The Sign of Silence • William Le Queux


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