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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.

2.

The side of an object that is opposite its front. Synonyms: back end, backside.

3.

The part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer. Synonym: back. "It was hidden in the rear of the store"

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.

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.

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"Rear" Quotes from Famous Books

... grieved—when I think of the blood that has stained the cause of freedom at Paris; but I also hear the same live stream cry aloud from the highways, through which the retreating armies passed with famine and death in their rear, and I hide my face with awe before the inscrutable ways of providence, sweeping in such various directions the besom of destruction over the ...

— Posthumous Works - of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman • Mary Wollstonecraft

... little heed to him as he passed briskly through. Surveillance came rather from an entirely unsuspected quarter. As he left the house and crossed the square, a figure detached itself from the shadow of the wall, and set out to follow. It hung in his rear through the filthy, labyrinthine streets which Sir Richard took to Charing Cross, followed him along the Strand and up Bedford Street, and took note of the house he entered at the corner ...

— The Lion's Skin • Rafael Sabatini

... that every Frenchman shall wonder at your wealth. Send also hostages, and promise him that on next Michaelmas you will be baptized at Aix and do him homage for Spain. Pleased with your promises, he will return to France. But his rear-guard, with Roland and Oliver, and twenty thousand Frenchmen, will be long among the passes of the Pyrenees. A hundred thousand Moors could ...

— Hero Tales • James Baldwin

... was about half way to St. Albans, where I stayed all day Sunday, and took the night express for Boston. The bay horse and open buggy, with yellow running gear, were furnished me by Howarth a few days previous to the assault. The team was engaged by Jenne at the livery stable in the rear of the American House, Richford, and the young man who drove the team on the night of the assault was young Jim Wilson. He left me at Sutton, and I was instructed to leave the team at the Richford livery stable above mentioned, ...

— The Story of a Dark Plot - or Tyranny on the Frontier • A.L.O. C. and W.W. Smith

... into the forest at the top of his speed, closely followed by the captain and Walter. They had run but a few paces before Walter, who was in the rear, stopped suddenly. "Chris has stayed," he shouted to the others, "we can't ...

— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely

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