rear

Meaning

Verb

1. (transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
2. (transitive) To breed and raise.
3. (intransitive) To rise up on the hind legs.
4. (intransitive, usually) To get angry.
5. (intransitive) To rise high above, tower above.
6. (literary, transitive) To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
7. (rare, transitive) To construct by building; to set up
8. (rare, transitive) To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
9. (obsolete, transitive) To lift and take up.
10. (obsolete, transitive) To rouse; to strip up.

Adj

Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost..

Adv

early; soon

Noun

1. The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order.
2. Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
3. The buttocks or bottom.

Adj

1. (dialectal) (of eggs) Underdone; nearly raw.
2. (US) (of meats) Rare.

Opposite of

front

Synonyms

back

🔙

raise

bring up

behind

backside

hind

buttocks

breed

keep

posterior

bottom

nurture

rear end

tail

educate

bum

stern

foster

rump

butt

hindquarters

back end

lift

nourish

buns

arse

grow

tail end

ass

🍑

erect

derriere

keister

tooshie

nates

fundament

seat

💺

fanny

tush

can

hind end

rearguard

hind part

reverse

rise

support

prat

last

put up

cultivate

hinder

Translations

derrière

élever

arrière

🔙

trasero

🔙

sedere

🪑

aufziehen

traseiro

criar

posteriore

🔙

züchten

postérieur

dos

🔙

Hintern

rabo

éduquer

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹɪ(ə)ɹ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: reren

Inherited from Old English: rǣran

Cognate with Scots: rere

Cognate with Icelandic: reisa

Cognate with Gothic: 𐍂𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽

Cognate with German: reisen

Inherited from Middle English: rere

Inherited from Old English: hrēran

Cognate with Dutch: roeren

Cognate with German: rühren

Cognate with Swedish: röra

Cognate with Icelandic: hræra

Inherited from Old English: hrēr

Cognate with Old English: hrōr

In summary

From Middle English reren (“to raise”), from Old English rǣran (“to raise, set upright, promote, exalt, begin, create, give rise to, excite, rouse, arouse, stir up”), from Proto-West Germanic *raiʀijan, from Proto-Germanic *raizijaną, *raisijaną (“to cause to rise, raise”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rey- (“to lift oneself, rise”).
Cognate with Scots rere (“to construct, build, rear”), Icelandic reisa (“to raise”), Gothic 𐍂𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (raisjan, “to cause to rise, lift up, establish”), German reisen (“to travel”, literally “to rear up and depart”); and a doublet of raise. More at rise.
Related to rise and raise, which is used for several of its now archaic or obsolete senses and for some of its senses that are currently more common in other dialects of English.

Sentences

These rustic throwbacks adjoin to rear sheds containing a kitchen and bathroom .