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rear
 [reer] 
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | back, end |
| Synonyms: | aft, after, astern, backward, behind, dorsal, following, hind, hinder, hindermost, hindmost, last, mizzen, posterior, postern, rearmost, rearward, retral, reverse, stern, tail |
| Notes: | one rears children and raises crops |
| Antonyms: | beginning, front |
| Main Entry: | rear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | raise young |
| Synonyms: | breed, bring up, care for, cultivate, educate, foster, grow, nurse, nurture, propagate, train |
| Antonyms: | abandon, neglect |
| Main Entry: | rear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lift, rise |
| Synonyms: | bring up, elevate, hoist, hold up, jump, leap, loom, pick up, raise, set upright, soar, spring up, support, take up, tower, turn up, uphold, uplift, upraise |
| Antonyms: | drop, fall |
Example Sentences
- The new master bedroom and bath on the top floor overlook the rear garden.
- When you have tenure, you can tell this interloper that she can kiss your pedagogic rear end.
- Leading from the rear is turning out to be a bad strategy.
| Main Entry: | rear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | build |
| Synonyms: | construct, erect, fabricate, put up, raise, set up, uprear |
| Antonyms: | destroy |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | Rear. |
| Category: | 3. Centrical dimensions; special |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
rear, back, posteriority; rear rank, rear guard; background, hinterland., occiput, nape, chine; heels; tail, rump, croup, buttock, posteriors, backside, scut, breech, dorsum, loin; dorsal region, lumbar region; hind quarters; aitchbone; natch, natch bone., stern, poop, afterpart, heelpiece, crupper., wake; train (sequence)., reverse; other side of the shield.
-verbs
be behind; fall astern; bend backwards; bring up the rear.
-adjectives
back, rear; hind, hinder, hindmost, hindermost; postern, posterior; dorsal, after; caudal, lumbar; mizzen, tergal.
-adverbs
behind; in the rear, in the background; behind one's back; at the heels of, at the tail of, at the back of; back to back., after, aft, abaft, astern, sternmost, aback, rearward.
-phrases
ogni medaglia ha il suo rovescio.
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| Antonyms: | front |
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| Main Entry: | after |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | following in position or time |
| Synonyms: | afterwards, back, back of, behind, below, ensuing, hind, hindmost, in the rear, later, next, posterior, postliminary, rear, subsequential, subsequently, succeeding, thereafter |
| Antonyms: | before |
| Main Entry: | astern |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | backward |
| Synonyms: | abaft, aft, rear, rearward |
| Antonyms: | forward |
| Main Entry: | back |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | end |
| Synonyms: | aback, abaft, aft, after, astern, back of, backward, behind, final, following, hind, hindmost, in the wake of, posterior, rear, rearmost, rearward, tail |
| Antonyms: | front |
| Main Entry: | back |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | end part |
| Synonyms: | aft, back end, backside, extremity, far end, hindpart, hindquarters, posterior, rear, reverse, stern, tail, tail end, tailpiece |
| Antonyms: | front |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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