Dictionary Definition
rear adj : located in or toward the back or rear;
"the chair's rear legs"; "the rear door of the plane"; "on the
rearward side" [syn: rear(a), rearward(a)]
Noun
1 the back of a military formation or procession;
"infantrymen were in the rear" [ant: head]
2 the side of an object that is opposite its
front; "his room was toward the rear of the hotel" [syn: backside, back end] [ant:
front]
3 the part of something that is furthest from the
normal viewer; "he stood at the back of the stage"; "it was hidden
in the rear of the store" [syn: back] [ant: front]
4 the fleshy part of the human body that you sit
on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on
your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end,
keister, posterior, prat, rear end,
rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end,
tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass]
5 the side that goes last or is not normally
seen; "he wrote the date on the back of the photograph" [syn:
back] [ant: front]
Verb
1 stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds; "The
horse reared in terror" [syn: rise up]
4 cause to rise up [syn: erect]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /ˈrɪɚ/
- Rhymes -ɪə(r)
Antonyms
Translations
being behind, or in the hindmost part
- Dutch: achterste
- Finnish: taka-
- Japanese: 後ろの, 後方の
- Russian: задний
Adverb
- early; soon Prov. Eng.
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- Then why does Cuddy leave his cot so rear! --Gay.
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Noun
Translations
the back or hindmost part
- Dutch: achterste, achterkant
- Finnish: takaosa, perä, peräpää
- Hungarian: hátsó
- Japanese: 後ろ, 後方
- Russian: задняя часть, задняя сторона
the part of an army or fleet which comes last
- Dutch: achterhoede
- Finnish: takajoukko
- Hungarian: hátvéd
- Japanese: qualifier archaic しんがり
- Russian: тыл
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- ttbc [[Arabic:
- ttbc Chinese: 后面 (hòumian)
- ttbc Ewe: megbe
- ttbc French: arrière
- ttbc German: hinter
- ttbc Italian: posteriore
- ttbc Korean: 배후의 (baehu-ui)
- ttbc Portuguese: posterior
- ttbc Spanish: posterior
- ttbc Swedish: baksides
Etymology 2
Old English ræranVerb
- To raise; to lift up;
to cause to rise, to elevate; as, to rear a monolith.
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- In adoration at his feet I fell Submiss; he reared me. —Milton
- It reareth our hearts from vain thoughts. —Barrow
- Mine [shall be] the first hand to rear her banner. —Ld. Lytton
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- To construct by
building; to set up; as, to rear defenses or houses; to rear one
government on the ruins of another.
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- One reared a font of stone. —Tennyson
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- In the context of "transitive|obsolete": To lift and take up.
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- And having her from Trompart lightly reared, Upon his set the lovely load. —Spenser
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- To bring
up to maturity, as young; to educate; to instruct; to foster;
as, to rear offspring.
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- He wants a father to protect his youth, and rear him up to virtue. —Southern
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- To breed and raise; as, to rear cattle (cattle-rearing).
- In the context of "transitive|obsolete": To rouse; to strip up.
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- And seeks the tusky boar to rear. —Dryden
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- To rise up on the hind legs, as a horse.
Translations
to lift, raise etc.
- Dutch: oprichten
- Finnish: nostaa, kohottaa
- French: ériger
- German: aufrichten
- Irish: tóg
- Japanese: 育てる
- Russian: поднимать , поднять ; возвышать , возвысить ; возносить , вознести
to set up
- Finnish: pystyttää
- Japanese: そびえ立つ
- Russian: возводить , возвести ; воздвигать , водвигнуть ; сооружать , соорудить
to bring up to maturity
- Czech: vychovat
- Dutch: grootbrengen, opvoeden
- Ewe: nyi
- Finnish: kasvattaa
- French: élever
- German: aufziehen, erziehen, großziehen
- Irish: tóg
- Japanese: 育てる
- Kurdish: ,
- Russian: воспитывать , воспитать
to breed and raise
- Dutch: kweken
- Finnish: kasvattaa
- French: élever
- Irish: tóg
- Japanese: 育てる, 飼育する
- Russian: выращивать , вырастить
- Spanish: criar
to rise on the hind legs
- Finnish: nousta takajaloilleen
- Japanese: qualifier phrase 後ろ足立ちする
- Russian: вставать на дыбы
Anagrams
See also
- rear admiral, fleetrank below vice-admiral, originally in charge of a fleet's rear formation
- rear echelon
- rear end, or rear for short
- rear front - (military), the rear rank of a body of troops when faced about and standing in that position.
- rear guard
- rearhorse
- rear line - (military), the line in the rear of an army.
- rearmost
- rearmouse
- rear rank - (military), the rank or line of a body of troops which is in the rear, or last in order.
- rear sight - (firearms), the sight nearest the breech.
- rearward
- bring up the rear - to come last or behind.
- rearing bit - a bit designed to prevent a horse from lifting his head when rearing.
Usage notes
See note under raise.Extensive Definition
Rear may be used as a noun and a verb and has
several meanings:
- Rear (military) - the area of a battlefield behind the front line
- Animals:
- In stockbreeding, to breed and raise
- Rear (horse), when a horse spreads his hind legs
- Rear end, the buttocks
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
aft,
after, aftermost, apprentice, arena, arise, arse, ascend, ass, assemble, back, backdrop, background, backside, backward, behind, boost, bottom, break, break in, breed, bring up, bristle, build, bulk, bulk large, bum, buoy up, buss the clouds,
butt, buttocks, care for, carve, cast, cast up, chisel, cock up, come up,
compose, compound, concoct, condition, construct, convert, create, crop, croup, crupper, cultivate, culture, curl upwards, develop, devise, discipline, distance, drill, dryfarm, educate, elaborate, elevate, end, erect, escalate, evolve, exceed, exercise, extract, extrude, fabricate, fanny, farm, fashion, fatten, feed, fetch up, field, fit, flounder, form, formulate, foster, frame, fudge together, garden, get up, go up, groom, ground, grow, grow up, harvest, hatch, haunches, heave, heft, heighten, heist, hike, hind, hind end, hind part, hinder, hindermost, hindhand, hindmost, hindquarters, hinterland, hobbyhorse, hoick, hoist, hold up, house-train,
housebreak, improve, indite, jerk up, jump up,
keep, knock up, last, levitate, lick into shape,
lift, lift up, lob, locale, loft, loom, loom large, lurch, machine, make, make heavy weather, make up,
manufacture,
mature, mill, mine, mise-en-scene, mold, mount, nates, nurse, nurture, outsoar, outstrip, overtop, patch together, perk
up, pick up, piece together, pitch, pitch and toss, plunge, posterior, postern, pound, practice, prefabricate, prepare, process, produce, propagate, pump, put in tune, put to school,
put together, put up, raise, raise aloft, raise up,
ramp, ranch, ready, rear aloft, rear end, rear
guard, rear up, rearmost, rearward, reel, refine, rehearse, retral, retrograde, rise, rise above, rise up, rock, roll, rump, run, run up, scend, scene, seat, send to school, set up,
setting, shape, sharecrop, sit bolt upright,
sit up, sky, smelt, soar, spiral, spire, stage, stage set, stage setting,
stand on tiptoe, stand out, stand up, stand upright, stern, stick up, surge, swarm up, sway, sweep up, swing, tag end, tail, tail end, take in hand, take
up, theater, throw up,
toss, toss and tumble,
tower, tower above,
train, transcend, tumble, tush, tushy, up, upbuoy, upcast, upend, upgo, upgrow, upheave, uphoist, uphold, uplift, upraise, uprear, upright, uprise, upspin, upstream, upsurge, upswarm, upthrow, upwind, wallow, welter, whomp up, write, yaw