rear
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Etymology 1
Ultimately from Latin retro; confer arrear.
[edit] Adjective
rear (not comparable)
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[edit] Translations
being behind, or in the hindmost part
[edit] Adverb
rear (comparative more rear, superlative most rear)
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[edit] Noun
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rear (plural rears)
- The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last on order; - opposed to front.
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- Nipped with the lagging rear of winter's frost. - Milton
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- (military) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
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- When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear. --Milton
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- (anatomy) The buttocks, a creature's bottom
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- (buttocks) rear end
[edit] Translations
the back or hindmost part
the part of an army or fleet which comes last
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[edit] Derived terms
terms derived from rear (noun)
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[edit] Etymology 2
From Old English ræran
[edit] Verb
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to rear (third-person singular simple present rears, present participle rearing, simple past and past participle reared)
- (transitive) To raise physically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
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- In adoration at his feet I fell Submiss; he reared me. — Milton
- Mine [shall be] the first hand to rear her banner. — Lord Lytton
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- (transitive) 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. — Alfred Tennyson
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- (transitive) To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
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- It reareth our hearts from vain thoughts. — Isaac Barrow
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- (transitive, obsolete) To lift and take up.
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- And having her from Trompart lightly reared, Upon his set the lovely load. — Edmund Spenser
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- (transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
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- He wants a father to protect his youth, and rear him up to virtue. — Thomas Southerne
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- (transitive) To breed and raise; as, to rear cattle (cattle-rearing).
- (transitive, obsolete) To rouse; to strip up.
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- And seeks the tusky boar to rear. — John Dryden
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- (intransitive) To rise up on the hind legs, as a bolting horse.
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See note under raise.
[edit] Synonyms
sense rise up on the hind legs
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[edit] Translations
to lift, raise etc. physically
to set up, construct
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to bring up to maturity
to breed and raise
to rise on the hind legs
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