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Definition: Backside |
BacksideNoun1. The side of an object that is opposite its front; "his room was toward the rear of the hotel". 2. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "backside" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: BacksideSynonyms: arse (n), ass (n), back end (n), behind (n), bottom (n), bum (n), buns (n), butt (n), buttocks (n), can (n), derriere (n), fanny (n), fundament (n), hind end (n), hindquarters (n), keister (n), nates (n), posterior (n), prat (n), rear (n), rear end (n), rump (n), seat (n), stern (n), tail (n), tail end (n), tooshie (n), tush (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: front (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Rear | Occiput, nape, chine; heels; tail, rump, croup, buttock, posteriors, backside scut, breech, dorsum, loin; dorsal region, lumbar region; hind quarters; aitchbone; natch, natch bone. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Backside |
| Specialty definitions using "backside": backcut, backside cache, BLIND CUPID, BUM, BUMFIDDLE ♦ COOLER ♦ DOUBLE JUGG ♦ falling cut, felling cut ♦ PowerPC G3 ♦ RUMFORD. (references) |
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Clever | Man who scratches backside should not bite fingernails. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Love from the Backside (1989) Backside to the Future II (1987) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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![]() | A site visit to monitor at the berm on the backside of the marsh platform after construction of the platform but prior to planting. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | ![]() | Figure 25. Current meter invented by Thorsten Arwidsson in 1880. Viewing the backside. This instrument was devised for rapid measurement by stationary naval vessels. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Goat" by Marco Heintz Commentary: "A goat on the hill of black forest. View to the hill in the backside." | "Pink Peony" by Stephanie Summerfield Commentary: "This is a view of the backside of a peony after the rain." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | I told you that one day I wrote my name in pencil on the backside of the Venus of Praxiteles in the Museum |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Backside" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Backside" is used about 284 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 284 | 17,292 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "backside": backside cache ♦ get off one's backside. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "backside": backside-numbing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
backside | 172 | backside girl | 3 |
backside licking | 14 | backside tent | 3 |
backside sleeping bag | 13 | backside pantie | 3 |
backside record | 11 | backside bag coleman down quot quot sleeping synthetic | 3 |
backside boy | 6 | backside flip | 2 |
backside male | 6 | animated backside | 2 |
backside moon | 5 | backside nude | 2 |
backside future | 4 | babe backside | 2 |
backside burbank record | 4 | backside camp pad | 2 |
air backside | 4 | backside man | 2 |
backside pic | 4 | backside beautiful | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "backside"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | agterent (back, back part, behind, bottom, buttocks, hind, hind part, rear, rump), agterste (hind, hindmost, last, rump). (various references) | |
Albanian | bythë (arse, ass, buttock, fundament, seat), prapanicë (butt, Fanny, fundament, posterior, prat, rear), pjesë e pasme (rear, rearer, rump, tail). (various references) | |
Arabic | كفل (ass, bottom, butt, buttock, buttocks, ensure, guarantee, guaranty, insure, pledge, posterior, prat, rump, secure, sponsor, vouch), مؤخرة (ass, behind, bum, butt, buttock, in the end, prat, rearward, stern), مؤخر (delayed). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гръб (back, rear, saddle), задник (arse, breech, bum, buttocks, can, cheeks, posterior, rear, seat, stern, tail), задни части. (various references) | |
Chinese | 屁股. (various references) | |
Czech | zadnice (bum, Fanny, rump). (various references) | |
Dutch | kont (behind, bottom, buttocks, rump), gat (aperture, cave, cavity, hole, opening, rump), achterste (hind, hindmost, last, rump). (various references) | |
Esperanto | postaĵo (rump). (various references) | |
Farsi | پشت (Abaft, Backbone, Rear), محرمانه (Backstage, Esoteric, Private, Secret, Surreptitious), کفل (Breech, Buttock, Haunch, Hip, Posterior, Rump, Seat, Slat), عقب هرچیزی , خصوصی (Backstage, Closet, Informal, Personal, Private, Subjective). (various references) | |
French | derrière (back). (various references) | |
Frisian | poepert (rump), gat (anus, arse, ass, rump), efterst (rump). (various references) | |
German | Rückseite (back, back page, far side, flipside, rear, reverse, reverse side, verso). (various references) | |
Greek | κώλος (arse), όπισθεν (abaft, back, behind, breech, overleaf, rear, reverse, reverse gear), πισινό (arse), πίσω πλευρά, οπίσθια (breech, buttocks, postern, rump). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ישבן (arse, bottom, buttock, sitter), אחורים (breech, buttocks, hindquarter, posterior, rump), אחור (back, backward, behind, buttock, posterior, rear, rump, stern). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fenék (arse, ass, bottom, botty, breech, bum, buttocks, fanny, hams, hunker, kazoo, posterior, posteriors, prat, rear, tail). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penduduk (bottom, denizen, inhabitant, inhabitting, occupation, resident), pantat (behind, butt, buttock, posterior, rear). (various references) | |
Italian | sedere (be seated, rump, sit, sit down, take a seat, to sit), deretano (can, fundament, posterior, stern). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ヒステリー性格 (be a hit, buttocks, hickory, hip cut, hip pad, hipbone skirt, hip-hop, hippie style, hippy, hips, hip-up girdle, Hispanic, hiss noise, histogram, history, hit, hit chart, hit man, hit parade, hit song, hit-and-run, hitch-hike, Hitler, hitting, hysteric, hysterical personality, safe hit, success). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ヒップ (buttocks, hips). (various references) | |
Korean | 후부 (back-end). (various references) | |
Manx | thoyn (anus, arse, behind, bottom, bum, buttock, rectum, seat, vent), kione y vremmey. (various references) | |
Papiamen | kul (rump). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acksidebay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | traseiro (arse, ass, back, behind, bottom, breech, bum, buttock, fundament, hind, hinder, posterior, rear, seat, stern), parte traseira, nádegas, bunda, parte traseira (back, rear, tail), nádegas (behind, bottom, breech, buttocks, fundament, nates, seat), alça de mira. (various references) | |
Russian | тыльная сторона (back), зад (arse, ass, back, breech, bum, croupe, duff, end, fanny 2, fundament, hams, posterior, prat). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zadnjica (ass, behind, butt, buttocks, fanny, fundament, nates, posterior, rear, rump), zadnji deo (haunch). (various references) | |
Spanish | zaga (back, posteriors, rear part), trasero (after, back, behind, bottom, breech, hind, hinder, posterior, quarters, rear, rearmost, rear-mounted, rearward, seat, tail), espalda, lomo. (various references) | |
Swedish | bak (at the back, back, baking, batch, behind). (various references) | |
Turkish | popo (behind, breech, bum, butt, buttocks, can, posterior, rear, rear end), kıç (arse, ass, behind, bottom, breech, bum, butt, buttocks, can, Fanny, fundament, ham, haunches, hindquarters, hip, nates, poop, posterior, rear, rear end, rump, slats, stern, tail, tail end, vent), arka taraf (back side, rear, reverse, stern). (various references) | |
Turkmen | yz (rear, trace), syrt (bottom). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | відхоже місце (necessary), надвірні будівлі (building, outbuilding), задня сторона (back). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mông đít (posterior). (various references) | |
Yucatec | u bak'el it (behind, bottom, buttocks, rump). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Revelation Chapter 5, Verse 1 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai eidon epi thn dexian tou kaqhmenou epi tou qronou biblion gegrammenon eswqen kai opisqen katesfragismenon sfragisin epta |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et vidi in dextera sedentis super thronum librum scriptum intus et foris signatum sigillis septem |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And Y say in the riythond of the sittere on the trone, a book writun with ynne and with out, and seelid with seuene seelis. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And I sawe in the right honde of him that sat in ye trone a boke written with in and on the backside sealyd with vii. seales. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And I saw in the right hand of him who was seated on the high seat, a book with writing inside it and on the back, shut with seven stamps of wax. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Revelation Chapter 5, Verse 1 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ug nakita ko, sa toong kamot niadtong naglingkod sa trono, ang usa ka basahong linukot nga may sinulat diha sa sulod ug sa likod niini, nga minarkahan ug pito ka timri. |
| Croatian | I vidjeh: na desnici Onoga koji sjedi na prijestolju - knjiga, iznutra i izvana ispisana, zapeèaæena sa sedam peèata! |
| Danish | Og jeg så i hans højre Hånd, som sad på Tronen, en Bog, beskreven indeni og udenpå, forseglet med syv Segl. |
| Dutch | En ik zag in de rechter hand Desgenen, Die op den troon zat, een boek, geschreven van binnen en van buiten, verzegeld met zeven zegelen. |
| Finnish | Ja minä näin valtaistuimella-istuvan oikeassa kädessä kirjakäärön, sisältä ja päältä täyteen kirjoitetun, seitsemällä sinetillä suljetun. |
| French | Puis je vis dans la main droite de celui qui était assis sur le trône un livre écrit en dedans et en dehors, scellé de sept sceaux. |
| German | Und ich sah in der rechten Hand des, der auf dem Stuhl saß, ein Buch, beschrieben inwendig und auswendig, versiegelt mit sieben Siegeln. |
| Hungarian | És láték annak jobbkezében, a ki a királyiszékben üle, egy könyvet , a mely be volt írva belõl és hátul, és le volt pecsételve hét pecséttel. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kemudian saya melihat sebuah gulungan buku di tangan Dia yang duduk di takhta itu. Buku itu penuh dengan tulisan pada sebelah-menyebelahnya dan dimeteraikan dengan tujuh buah segel. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka aku tampak di dalam tangan kanan Dia, yang duduk di atas arasy itu, ada sebuah kitab, yang bertulis luar dalamnya, dan bermeterai dengan tujuh meterai. |
| Italian | E vidi nella mano destra di Colui che era assiso sul trono un libro a forma di rotolo, scritto sul lato interno e su quello esterno, sigillato con sette sigilli. |
| Maori | ¶ A i kite ano ahau i te ringa matau o tera e noho ra i runga i te torona, he pukapuka kua oti te tuhituhi a roto, a tua hoki, he mea hiri ki nga hiri e whitu. |
| Norwegian | Og jeg så i hans høire hånd som satt på tronen, en bokrull, skrevet innvendig og utvendig, og forseglet med syv segl. |
| Portuguese | Vi na destra do que estava assentado sobre o trono um livro escrito por dentro e por fora, bem selado com sete selos. |
| Rumanian | Apoi am vqzut kn mkna dreaptq a Celuice wedea pe scaunul de domnie o carte, scrisq pe dinlquntru wi pe dinafarq, pecetluitq cu wapte peceyi. |
| Shuar | ¶ Nuyá akupin pujutainium pujuya nuna Untsuurín Papí penuarma aanniun wainkiamjai. Nu papisha Initiaanísha tura Pátatkesha aarmauyi. Tura urakchamnia Atí tusa siati anujtukmajai kaki peekmauyi. |
| Spanish | Vi en la mano derecha del que estaba sentado sobre el trono, un libro escrito por dentro y por fuera, sellado con siete sellos. |
| Swahili | Kisha katika mkono wa kulia wa huyo aliyeketi juu ya kiti cha enzi, nikaona kitabu; nacho kilikuwa kimeandikwa ndani na nje na kufungwa na mihuri saba. |
| Swedish | Bokrullen med de sju inseglen. |
| Uma | ¶ Ngkai ree kuhilo, ria sura halulua hi pale ka'ana-na to Mohura hi Pohuraa Magau'. Sura toe ukiaa' ntimalia, ralulu pai' rasaa' hante pitu meha' saa' bona uma ma'ala rabongka. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "backside": backsides. (additional references) | |
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"Backside" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: backsi, beckside, Blacksided, Blacksyde, bockside. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "backside" (pronounced ba"ksī'd) |
| 4 | -k s ī' d | dioxide, lakeside, dockside, oxide, peroxide, superoxide. |
| 3 | -s ī' d | bedside, blindside, broadside, countryside, curbside, Ironside, downside, fireside, fratricide, fungicide, genocide, germicide, glucoside, glycoside, graveside, harborside, herbicide, hillside, homicide, infanticide, insecticide, mountainside, pesticide, poolside, prophesied, ringside, riverside, roadside, seaside, silverside, suicide, underside, wayside. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: diebacks. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-e-i-k-s" | |
-1 letter: dieback, sickbed. | |
-2 letters: abides, backed, basked, biased, casked, cebids, ceibas, sacked, sicked. | |
-3 letters: abide, acids, aides, asdic, aside, asked, backs, baked, bakes, based, basic, beads, beaks, becks, bices, bides, biked, bikes, cades, cadis, caids, caked, cakes, cased, cebid, cedis, ceiba, daces, decks, dices, dicks, dikes, ideas, kadis, kibes, sabed, saice, skied. | |
-4 letters: abed, aced. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-d-e-i-k-s" | |
+1 letter: backsides, backslide. | |
+2 letters: backfields, backlisted, backslider, backslides, breadstick, rudbeckias. | |
+3 letters: backslidden, backsliders, blackbodies, blacklisted, breadsticks, fiddlebacks. | |
+4 letters: backstitched, biofeedbacks, blackbirders, switchbacked. | |
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