Dictionary Entry
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
- 1adverb
Early; soon.
- 2noun
The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order; -- opposed to front.
- 3noun
Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
- 4adjective
Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost; as, the rear rank of a company.
- 5transitive verb
To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
- 6transitive verb
To raise; to lift up; to cause to rise, become erect, etc.; to elevate; as, to rear a monolith.
- 7transitive 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.
- 8transitive verb
To lift and take up.
- 9transitive verb
To bring up to maturity, as young; to educate; to instruct; to foster; as, to rear offspring.
- 10transitive verb
To breed and raise; as, to rear cattle.
- 11transitive verb
To rouse; to stir up.
- 12intransitive verb
To rise up on the hind legs, as a horse; to become erect.
- 13noun
the side that goes last or is not normally seen
"he wrote the date on the back of the photograph"
Synonyms
- 14noun
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?"
- 15noun
the back of a military formation or procession
"infantrymen were in the rear"
- 16noun
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"
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- 17noun
the side of an object that is opposite its front
"his room was toward the rear of the hotel"
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- 18verb
construct, build, or erect
"Raise a barn"
- 19verb
stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds
"The horse reared in terror"
- 20verb
cause to rise up
Synonyms
- 21verb
bring up
"raise a family"
"bring up children"
- 22verb
rise up
"The building rose before them"
- 23adjective
located in or toward the back or rear
"the chair's rear legs"
"the rear door of the plane"
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