POSTERIORS

Definition: POSTERIORS

POSTERIORS

Noun plural

1. The hinder parts, as of an animal's body.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "POSTERIORS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Domain	Definition
Health	The seal at the posterior border of a denture. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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: POSTERIORS

Specialty definitions using "POSTERIORS": BUMPING ♦ COOLER. (references)

"POSTERIORS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "POSTERIORS" is used about 6 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 (plural)	100%	6	143,867

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.

Language		Translations for "POSTERIORS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		后部 (Posterior). (various references)

German		Hinterteil (back part, backside, behind, breech, hindquarters, posterior, rear part, rump, tail). (various references)

Hungarian		utódok (offspring, posterity, progeny, succession), utód (child, chip, descendant, issue, progeny, successor), fenék (arse, ass, backside, bottom, botty, breech, bum, buttocks, fanny, hams, hunker, kazoo, posterior, prat, rear, tail), altest (posterior), alfél (hams, posterior). (various references)

Korean		�'� (BACK, Backs, Posterior). (various references)

Pig Latin		osteriorspay

Spanish		zaga (back, backside, rear part). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"POSTERIORS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: posterers, posterious, prosterior, Zosterops. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "POSTERIORS" (pronounced 'Pos*te"ri*ors'): indoors, Outdoors, Porthors, Sors. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-o-o-p-r-r-s-s-t"
	-1 letter: posterior.
	-2 letters: isotopes, pierrots, portress, presorts, prioress, prosiest, prosties, reposits, resistor, ripostes, roisters, roosters, sorriest, sporters, sportier, stoopers, stripers, triposes, troopers.
	-3 letters: esprits, isotope, orrises, persist, pierrot, poisers, poorest, porters, posters, potsies, preriot, presort, pressor, prestos, pretors, priests, prosers, prosier, prossie, prostie, reports, reposit, resorts, respots, rioters, riposte, riposts, roister, roosers, rooster, rooters.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-o-o-p-r-r-s-s-t"
	+1 letter: resorptions.
	+2 letters: professoriat, repositories.
	+3 letters: arthroscopies, heterospories, impersonators, orthopterists, professoriate, professoriats, supervirtuoso.
	+4 letters: coprosperities, erythropoieses, erythropoiesis, improvisatores, isoproterenols, moderatorships, multiprocessor, posteriorities, professoriates, protectorships, protohistories, retrospections, scleroproteins, sporotrichoses, supervirtuosos, thermotropisms.
	+5 letters: conservatorship, controllerships, crossopterygian, electrophoresis, heteromorphisms, microporosities, microsporocytes, multiprocessors, proprietorships, supererogations.
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