rear

rear is a 4-letter English word with 23 senses as adverb, noun, adjective, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Early; soon. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 4 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 4 · 23 senses

Definitions

1. adverb. Early; soon.
2. noun. The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order; -- opposed to front.
3. noun. Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
4. adjective. Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost; as, the rear rank of a company.
5. transitive verb. To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
6. transitive verb. To raise; to lift up; to cause to rise, become erect, etc.; to elevate; as, to rear a monolith.
7. transitive verb. To erect by building; to set up; to construct; as, to rear defenses or houses; to rear one government on the ruins of another.
8. transitive verb. To lift and take up.
9. transitive verb. To bring up to maturity, as young; to educate; to instruct; to foster; as, to rear offspring.
10. transitive verb. To breed and raise; as, to rear cattle.
11. transitive verb. To rouse; to stir up.
12. intransitive verb. To rise up on the hind legs, as a horse; to become erect.
13. noun. the side that goes last or is not normally seen

    "he wrote the date on the back of the photograph"

    Synonyms: back

14. noun. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

    "he deserves a good kick in the butt"

    "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"

    Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny

15. noun. the back of a military formation or procession

    "infantrymen were in the rear"

16. noun. the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer

    "he stood at the back of the stage"

    "it was hidden in the rear of the store"

    Synonyms: back

17. noun. the side of an object that is opposite its front

    "his room was toward the rear of the hotel"

    Synonyms: backside

18. verb. construct, build, or erect

    "Raise a barn"

    Synonyms: erect, raise

19. verb. stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds

    "The horse reared in terror"

20. verb. cause to rise up

    Synonyms: erect

21. verb. bring up

    "raise a family"

    "bring up children"

    Synonyms: nurture, parent, raise

22. verb. rise up

    "The building rose before them"

    Synonyms: lift, rise

23. adjective. located in or toward the back or rear

    "the chair's rear legs"

    "the rear door of the plane"

    Synonyms: rearward

Synonyms

back, arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rump, seat, stern, tail, tooshie

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in rear:

rare

Common word forms

rears, reared, rearer, rearly, rearing, rearise

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