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rear

rear
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [reer]
    • /rɪər/
    • /rɪə(r)/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [reer]
    • /rɪər/

Definitions of rear word

  • noun rear the back of something, as distinguished from the front: The porch is at the rear of the house. 1
  • noun rear the space or position behind something: The bus driver asked the passengers to move to the rear. 1
  • noun rear the buttocks; rump. 1
  • noun rear the hindmost portion of an army, fleet, etc. 1
  • adjective rear pertaining to or situated at the rear of something: the rear door of a bus. 1
  • idioms rear rear its (ugly) head. head (def 85). 1

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Origin of rear

First appearance:

before 1590
One of the 37% oldest English words
First recorded in 1590-1600; aphetic variant of arrear

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Rear

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

rear popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 98% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

rear usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for rear

adj rear

  • after — If something happens after a particular date or event, it happens during the period of time that follows that date or event.
  • after a while — some time later
  • back — If you move back, you move in the opposite direction to the one in which you are facing or in which you were moving before.
  • back of — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
  • by and by — presently or eventually

noun rear

  • antipole — the opposite pole
  • backside — Your backside is the part of your body that you sit on.
  • behind — If something is behind a thing or person, it is on the other side of them from you, or nearer their back rather than their front.
  • bottom — The bottom of something is the lowest or deepest part of it.
  • breech — The breech of a gun is the part of the barrel at the back into which you load the bullets.

adv rear

  • astern — Something that is astern is at the back of a ship or behind the back part.

verb rear

  • authored — a person who writes a novel, poem, essay, etc.; the composer of a literary work, as distinguished from a compiler, translator, editor, or copyist.
  • authoring — Authoring is the creation of documents, especially for the Internet.
  • bottoming — the lowest level of foundation material for a road or other structure
  • break through — If you break through a barrier, you succeed in forcing your way through it.
  • breed — A breed of a pet animal or farm animal is a particular type of it. For example, terriers are a breed of dog.

adjective rear

  • dorsal — of, relating to, or situated at the back, or dorsum.
  • end — Come or bring to a final point; finish.
  • hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
  • nether — lying or believed to lie beneath the earth's surface; infernal: the nether regions.

Antonyms for rear

noun rear

  • appearance — When someone makes an appearance at a public event or in a broadcast, they take part in it.
  • brow — Your brow is your forehead.
  • capitula — Biology. any globose or knoblike part, as a flower head or the head of a bone.
  • capitulum — a racemose inflorescence in the form of a disc of sessile flowers, the youngest at the centre. It occurs in the daisy and related plants
  • capote — a long cloak or soldier's coat, usually with a hood

adj rear

  • facial — of the face: facial expression.
  • headmost — most advanced; foremost.

adjective rear

  • front — the foremost part or surface of anything.

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