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Words related to rear

Related / Similar Words: back, buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, back end, raise, erect, set up, put up, rise up, bring up, nurture, parent, rise, lift

Definition:

the side that goes last or is not normally seen; "he wrote the date on the back of the photograph";

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?";

the back of a military formation or procession; "infantrymen were in the rear";

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";

the side of an object that is opposite its front; "his room was toward the rear of the hotel";

construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn";

stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds; "The horse reared in terror";

cause to rise up;

bring up; "raise a family"; "bring up children";

rise up; "The building rose before them";

Hyponyms: stern, after part, quarter, poop, tail, tail assembly, empennage, nape, scruff, nucha, rearward, rear back, pitch, set up, prick up, prick, cock up, fledge, cradle, foster, loom, tower, predominate, hulk

Part Meronyms: torso, trunk, body

Derivational Morphology: back, erection, erecting, parent, parenthood, parentage, birth, lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, stemma, stock, breeding, bringing up, fostering, fosterage, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing, upgrade, rise, rising slope

Anagrams: area, Aare, rare

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