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Definition: Rear |
RearAdjective1. Located in or toward the back or rear; the chair's rear legs"; "the rear door of the plane"; "on the rearward side". Noun1. The back of a military formation or procession; "infantrymen were in the rear". 2. The side of an object that is opposite its front; "his room was toward the rear of the hotel". 3. 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". 4. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on. 5. The side that goes last or is not normally seen; "he wrote the date on the back of the photograph". Verb1. As of quadrupeds. 2. Bring up; "raise a family"; "bring up children". 3. Rise up; "The building rose before them". 4. Cause to rise up. 5. Construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rear" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Satire | REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Food & Agriculture | A)(Australia)that portion of a fire spreading directly into the wind; b)(Canada)that portion of a fire edge opposite the head; c)the slowest spreading portion of a fire edge. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Of a horse to rise on its hind legs. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Military | Away from the enemy. (references) |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Grow, Raise, Rear. "We grow wheat, corn, oats, and potatoes on our farm." "We raise wheat," etc., would be better. With the same propriety we might use sleep for lodge, and eat for feed, or supply with food; as, "We can eat and sleep fifty persons at one time." The word raise is often incorrectly used in the sense of rear; as, "She raised a family of nine children." It is sometimes employed in the sense of increase, as, "The landlord raised my rent." Increased would be better. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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Synonyms: RearSynonyms: rear(a) (adj), rearward(a) (adj), arse (n), ass (n), back (n), back end (n), backside (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 end (n), rump (n), seat (n), stern (n), tail (n), tail end (n), tooshie (n), tush (n), bring up (v), erect (v), lift (v), nurture (v), parent (v), put up (v), raise (v), rise (v), rise up (v), set up (v). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: front (n), head (n), level (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Elevation | Verb: heighten, elevate, raise, lift, erect; set up, stick up, perch up, perk up, tilt up; rear, hoist, heave; uplift, upraise, uprear, upbear, upcast, uphoist, upheave; buoy, weigh mount, give a lift; exalt; sublimate; place on a pedestal, set on a pedestal. |
End | Adjective: ending; Verb: final, terminal, definitive; crowning; (completing); last, ultimate; hindermost; rear; caudal; vergent. |
Production | Verb: produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture; weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel; build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up; establish, compose, organize, institute; achieve, accomplish; (complete). |
Rear | Adjective: back, rear; hind, hinder, hindmost, hindermost; postern, posterior; dorsal, after; caudal, lumbar; mizzen, tergal. |
Sequel | Noun: sequel, suffix, successor; tail, queue, train, wake, trail, rear; retinue, suite; appendix, postscript; epilogue; peroration; codicil; continuation, sequela; appendage; tail piece, heelpiece; tag, more last words; colophon. |
Teaching | Train, discipline; bring up, bring up to; form, ground, prepare, qualify; drill, exercise, practice, habituate, familiarize with, nurture, drynurse, breed, rear, take in hand; break, break in; tame; preinstruct; initiate; inure; (habituate). |
Verticality | Render vertical; Adjective: set up, stick up, raise up, erect, rear, raise on its legs. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Rear |
| English words defined with "rear": rear back, Rear front, Rear guard, rear lamp, rear light, Rear line, rear of barrel, rear of tube, Rear rank. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "rear": rear area, rear support. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "rear": Alevin. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Rear" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (mark). |
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Screenplays | A rear end thermometer too. (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.) Everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end. (All About Eve; writing credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz) Pushy kids think they can tell me what to do in my house, Why, I tell you these parents these days they don't know how to rear children (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) I'm not much on rear window ethics (Rear Window; writing credit: John Michael Hayes; Cornell Woolrich) First they go up one side, they move it over, then they go up the other side, they move it back, and then they do the rear. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) | |
Lyrics | You'd love me if that my rear end (Skinny Legs; performing artist: Lyle Lovett) The rear (A Sorta Fairytale; performing artist: Tori Amos) | |
Tongue Twisters | A leaky rear latch on the listing bark lifted right up and the water rushed in. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Advance to the Rear (1964) Rear Window (1954) The Rear Gunner (1943) A Tax from the Rear (1920) Rear View Mirror (2002) | |
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 | A rear view of a black woman performing a breast self-examination (BSE) and is dressed in a towel framed against a brown-gold background. See artwork: GR-42. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |  | Freddie L. Jeffries First African-American C&GS officer Went on to become Rear Admiral. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Don Jones On the OCEANOGRAPHER Went on to become Rear Admiral. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Bust of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd at McMurdo Station. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Scientists conducting studies of Weddell seals Hood placed over head causes seal to cause seal to not move. Scientists then tag seal's rear fins. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Various systems mounted in the rear of the DC-6. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |
 | The Army Creek landfill that was capped is in the upper-left hand corner of the image. The white pipe sticking up in the rear is a vent placed in the ground when the landfill was capped. The landfill contained both municipal and industrial wastes. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | A portion of restored habitat is seen in the middle of the pond-like area and to the rear of the image. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Seahorse fathers rear their young in a pouch, like kangaroos. Hippocampus erectus. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | Figure 24. Clarke-Bumpus plankton gathering device. Invented in 1939 by George L. Clarke of Harvard University and Dean F. Bumpus of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. This device was used on the Atlantis. Top: view of the apparatus. Middle: view of the apparatus with net on frame. Lower left: rear view of the device's mouth. Lower right: plankton recovery unit. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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| "Rear View" by David Holtz Commentary: "Side view mirror." | "Rear View Mirror" by Tim Spence Commentary: "Looking through a rear view mirror." |
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 | Heave; grunt; gripe; grouse; moan; grousing; moaning; griping; heave; elevate; erect; heave; pick up; raise; rear; take up; uphold; uplift; upraise; uprear; hoist; lift. |
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Rear Admiral Chester W. Nimitz | [A ship is always referred to as "she"] Because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Nineteen barricades stood at intervals along the streets in the rear of this mother barricade |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The squad moved slowly toward the rear of the camp, and Huston looked after them |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | This tuber seemed like a faint promise of Nature to rear her own children and feed them simply here at some future period |
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Health | Palatal myoclonus is a regular, rhythmic contraction of one or both sides of the rear of the roof of the mouth, called the soft palate. (references) | |
COLPOCEPHALY is a disorder in which there is an abnormal enlargement of the occipital horns - the posterior or rear portion of the lateral ventricles (cavities or chambers) of the brain. (references) | ||
AVMs located on the frontal lobe close to the optic nerve or on the occipital lobe, the rear portion of the cerebrum where images are processed, may cause a variety of visual disturbances. (references) | ||
Business | Auto parts and accessories which are most promising include air conditioners, rear axle components, and other high technology OEM components. (references) | |
CSF also provides support and services commonly needed by all Armed Forces services, such as finance, surveying, engineering, rear echelon administration, and armament appraisal and testing. (references) | ||
Economic History | Chad | By mid-1997 the government signed peace deals with FARF and the MDD leadership and succeeded in cutting off the groups from their rear bases in the Central African Republic and Cameroon. (references) |
Human Rights | Colombia | The new Military Penal Code provides that the Supreme Court (not the Superior Military Tribunal) has first instance jurisdiction in cases that date from August 12, 1999, involving criminal acts by generals, admirals, major generals, vice-admirals, brigadier generals, rear admirals, and magistrates and prosecutors of the Superior Military Tribunal. (references) |
Travel | Brazil | Fares are inexpensive and sometimes a table used to adjust fares is posted on the inside of the taxi's rear window. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | CARMELITE, n. A mendicant friar of the order of Mount Carmel. As Death was a-rising out one day, Across Mount Camel he took his way, Where he met a mendicant monk, Some three or four quarters drunk, With a holy leer and a pious grin, Ragged and fat and as saucy as sin, Who held out his hands and cried: "Give, give in Charity's name, I pray. Give in the name of the Church. O give, Give that her holy sons may live!" And Death replied, Smiling long and wide: "I'll give, holy father, I'll give thee -- a ride." With a rattle and bang Of his bones, he sprang From his famous Pale Horse, with his spear; By the neck and the foot Seized the fellow, and put Him astride with his face to the rear. The Monarch laughed loud with a sound that fell Like clods on the coffin's sounding shell: "Ho, ho! A beggar on horseback, they say, Will ride to the devil!" -- and thump Fell the flat of his dart on the rump Of the charger, which galloped away. Faster and faster and faster it flew, Till the rocks and the flocks and the trees that grew By the road were dim and blended and blue To the wild, wild eyes Of the rider -- in size Resembling a couple of blackberry pies. Death laughed again, as a tomb might laugh At a burial service spoiled, And the mourners' intentions foiled By the body erecting Its head and objecting To further proceedings in its behalf. Many a year and many a day Have passed since these events away. The monk has long been a dusty corse, And Death has never recovered his horse. For the friar got hold of its tail, And steered it within the pale Of the monastery gray, Where the beast was stabled and fed With barley and oil and bread Till fatter it grew than the fattest friar, And so in due course was appointed Prior. G.J. |
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Rush Limbaugh | Keep a sharp eye out for this anti-free-speech dragon to once again rear its ugly head in the form of news editors who don't know news until they see it in the Times. |
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William H. Taft | 1909-1913 | We must not now, therefore, keep up a fire in the rear of the agents whom we have authorized to do our work on the Isthmus. |
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| "Rear" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 48.09% of the time. "Rear" is used about 1,774 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 48.09% | 853 | 8,273 |
| Noun (singular) | 40.88% | 725 | 9,302 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 9.63% | 171 | 23,814 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.35% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.06% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,774 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "rear" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Rear | Last name | 170 | 42,386 |
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Expressions using "rear": at the rear ♦ automatic rear fog flashlight ♦ bonnet rear reference line ♦ bring up the rear ♦ cabin rear bulkhead ♦ from the rear ♦ in the rear ♦ rear a child ♦ rear admiral ♦ rear area ♦ rear attack ♦ rear axle ♦ rear back ♦ rear brake lamp ♦ rear door ♦ rear doors ♦ rear drive ♦ rear echelon ♦ rear end ♦ rear entrance ♦ rear force command ♦ rear front ♦ rear guard ♦ rear gunner ♦ rear lamp ♦ rear light ♦ rear line ♦ rear mirror ♦ rear of barrel ♦ rear of the building ♦ rear of tube ♦ rear one's head ♦ rear part ♦ rear party ♦ rear position lamp ♦ rear projection ♦ rear rank ♦ rear reflector ♦ rear seat ♦ rear side lamp ♦ rear sight ♦ rear stalls ♦ rear support ♦ rear tyre ♦ rear up ♦ rear vassal ♦ rear vault ♦ rear view mirror ♦ rear wards ♦ rear wheel ♦ rear wiew mirror ♦ rear window ♦ red rear lamp ♦ red rear light ♦ take in the rear ♦ the rear offside tyre ♦ To bring up the rear. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "rear": Rear-admiral, Rear-adml, rear-axle, rear-being, rear-commodore, rear-drive, rear-end, rear-ended, rear-engined, rear-facing, rear-guard, rear-gurd, Rear-horse, rear-lamp, rear-mirror, rear-most, rear-mounted, rear-mounted engine, rear-of-the-year, rear-projected, rear-projection, rear-seat, rear-stage, rear-vassals, rear-view, rear-wheel, rear-wheel drive, rear-wheel-drive. | |
Ending with "rear": front-rear, half-rear, hand-rear, inside-rear, right-rear, twin-rear, upper-rear. | |
Containing "rear": six-rear-olds. | |
| 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 |
rear end | 287 | rear tine tiller | 36 |
rear | 270 | rear projection dlp | 36 |
rear entry | 211 | chevy end rear | 35 |
rear spoiler | 189 | rear differential | 35 |
rear view mirror | 119 | delt machine rear | 34 |
rear window | 102 | rear stand | 34 |
rear projection tv | 92 | rear projection | 32 |
rear view | 90 | rear shock | 32 |
rear wing | 67 | dlp rear projection tv | 31 |
rear window graphic | 61 | 9 end ford rear | 29 |
rear projection screen | 59 | rear loader truck | 29 |
rear view camera | 55 | rear sliding window | 28 |
end ford rear | 48 | rear projection tv review | 26 |
entry position rear | 45 | rear main seal | 24 |
rear bumper | 44 | car rear spoiler | 24 |
ford 9 inch rear end | 39 | rear window decals | 23 |
rear projection television | 39 | rear end gears | 23 |
motorcycle rear stand | 38 | rate rear | 23 |
rear axle | 38 | 12 bolt end rear | 22 |
deltoid machine rear | 38 | dana rear end | 22 |
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| Language | Translations for "rear"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | teel (breed, keep, raise), aanhou (breed, keep, raise). (various references) | |
Albanian | të ndenjura (breech, bum), shpinë (back, backing, rake, spine), prapavijë (rearward), prapanicë (backside, butt, Fanny, fundament, posterior, prat), pjesë e pasme (backside, rearer, rump, tail), ngrihet qirithi (prance, rear up), ngre (boost, build up, carve, cast up, chant, elevate, erect, establish, heft, heighten, hike, hitch, hoist, hold up, jerk up, kilt, lift, lift up, look up, move up, peak, pick up, propound, raise, rebel, revolt, ring up, rout, run up, scoop up, set up, situate, soar, Square, straighten, take off, throw up, trice, up, upheave, uplift, upraise, wake up, weigh, wind up), nevojtore (bathroom, bog, can, John, latrine, lavatory, loo, toilet, water closet), ndërtoj (build, carve, construct, engineer, erect, make, put up, raise, set up, throw up, upbuild, work up), lartësoj (celebrate, chant, elevate, exalt, extol, glorify, lift up, magnify, raise, rise, spring, sublimate, uplift), kultivoj (cultivate, farm, grow), i prapë (back, jackanapes, naughty), i pasëm (back), edukoj (breed, bring up, educate, Foster, urbanize), çoj (bring, conduce, deliver, drive, drop, give a lift, haul, haze, lead, lead off, lead up to, lift, pass, post, raise, route, send, take off, take place, waft). (various references) | |
Arabic | الأخير (hindmost, lag, last, late, later, rearmost), شب الفرس, ربى (bred, breed, bring up, cradle, educate, foster, invest, keep, nourish, nurse, nurture, raise, school, sprout, tutor), رفع (boost, brace, bring to his feet, bring up, cat, crane, dismiss, elevate, elevation, exalt, expand, fork out, heave, heighten, hike, hoist, hold up, inflate, jack, lever, leverage, lift, lifting, mount, pick, pick me up, pick up, promote, purchase, push up, put up with smth., raise, rise, rising, rode, roll up, scroll, send up, set up, sling, take up, thrust, turn up, up-end, upheave, uphold, uplift), رفع راسه (perk up), إرتفع عاليا, بنى (build, construct, erect, make, mason, put up, structure), إنتصب (recover, sit up, stand up, stick, straighten up), مؤخر (end), الجزء الخلفي, خلفي (after, backward, hind, hindmost, posterior, rearward, retro-), ذنب (crime, find guilty, offend, sin, trespass), عجيزة (behind, bottom, breech, bum, butt, posterior, slat, tail end), زرع (crop, cultivate, grow, implant, lay, plant, plantation, planting, put in, seed, sow, sowing, vegetate), مؤخرة الجيش, إرتفع ل (run into debt, total). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | надигам се (arise, blow up, boil up, get up, pull up, rise, simmer, surge, swell, uprise, well up), издигам (advance, build, edify, elevate, erect, exalt, heave, heft, heighten, hike, levitate, lift, make, put up, pyramid, raise, rose, run up, set up, swing up, throw up, upbear, uplift, upraise), извисявам (soar), извисявам се (kite, loft, peak, soar), повдигам (boost, bring up, elevate, give a lift, heave, heft, increase, key up, levitate, lift, moot, pick up, prefer, present, pull up, raise, start, take up, throw up, tip over, underlay, up, uplift, upraise), построявам (build, construct, erect, frame, make, pyramid, throw a bridge, upbuild), заден (back, hind, hinder, posterior, postern, rearward, retral), дигам, задна част (back, buttocks, heel, stern), развъждам (multiply, plant, propagate, raise), нужник (privy, stool), отглеждам (breed, bring up, cradle, cultivate, fledge, flower, grow, incubate, nourish, nurse, raise, tend), отхранвам (bring up, nourish, raise), вдигам (carry away, carry off, elevate, flush, get up, heave, heft, hoist, hold up, kick up, lift, pick up, pull up, purchase, put up, raise, rouse, run up, take up, tip up, up), вдигам се (clear away, get up, heave, lift, pick up, revolt, rise), гръб (back, backside, saddle), тил (nape, occiput, scruff), задник (arse, backside, breech, bum, buttocks, can, cheeks, posterior, seat, stern, tail). (various references) | |
Chinese | 養育 (foster), 后方, 毓 (nourish), 後面 (back, behind), 後方 , 後 (after, afterwards, back, behind, later, sit cross-legged, walk back and forth), 哺養 (feed). (various references) | |
Czech | zadní èást (seat), zadní (back, hind, posterior, rear seat), zadek (back, behind, bottom, bum, buttock, buttocks, Fanny, hindquarters, posterior, stern, tail), zázemí (hinterland), vychovat (bring up, nurture), týlový, týl (back, nape), pozadí (backdrop, background, ground), postavit (build, construct, contrast, erect, field, found, pitch, place, put, put up, raise, right, set, state), plašit se (jib), pìstovat (breed, cultivate, grow, prosecute, pursue, till, train), chovat (breed, cradle, entertain, Foster, Harbor, harbour). (various references) | |
Danish | avle (breed, keep, raise). (various references) | |
Dutch | achterhoede (defence, rearguard). (various references) | |
Esperanto | postgvardio (defence, rearguard), malantaŭa parto (back), bredi (breed, keep, raise), ariergardo (rearguard). (various references) | |
Faeroese | ala (beget, breed, generate, keep, raise). (various references) | |
Farsi | پروردن (Breed, Encourage, Feed, Form, Harbor, Mother, Nurture, Propagate, Train, Womb), پشت (Abaft, Backbone, Backside), نمودارشدن (Outcrop), تربیت کردن (Abet, Breed, Educate, Train), عقب (Abaft, Back, Behind, Tail), افراشتن (Erect, Fly), دنبال (Pursuit), بلندکردن (Enhance, Ennoble, Enthrone, Exalt, Heave, Heighten, Hoist, Lift, Loft, Pedestal, Remove, Upraise). (various references) | |
Finnish | taka (back, hind), selusta (back), selkäpuoli (back), selkäpii (back), perä (back, bedrock, butt, stern, tail end), nousta takajaloilleen, kasvattaa (breed, bring up, educate, grow, raise), jälkijoukko, jälki-istunto. (various references) | |
French | queue (distillation residue, residual oil, still residue), arrière-garde (rear guard, rearguard), arrière (rearward, retarded), élever (to rear). (various references) | |
Frisian | efterkant (back, reverse, reverse side), efterhoede (defence, rearguard). (various references) | |
German | Rückseite (back, back page, backside, far side, flipside, reverse, reverse side, verso), hintere (back, hind, posterior). (various references) | |
Greek | ανατρέφω (breed, bring up, fledge, foster, nurture, raise). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לחנך (educate, habituate, teach, tutor), להתרומם (heave, rise, tower), להעמיד (place, set, stand), להרים (elevate, hold up, lift, pick up, raise, up), להציב (dispose, place, post, set, set up, spot, stand), ערפי (back, occipital), אחורי (back, backward, hind, posterior, ulterior), אחור (back, backside, backward, behind, buttock, posterior, rump, stern), זנב (appendage, butt, stub, stump, tail, tail end). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hátvéd (back, full back, quarterback, rearguard), fenék (arse, ass, backside, bottom, botty, breech, bum, buttocks, fanny, hams, hunker, kazoo, posterior, posteriors, prat, tail). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pantat (backside, behind, butt, buttock, posterior), mendompak (leap up), burit (poterior), bagian belakang, asuh (bring up, care for, take care of). (various references) | |
Italian | retroguardia (defence, rearguard). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 後ろ (back, behind). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | リア , しんがり (rear unit guard), うしろ (back, behind), うら (back, divination, inlet, inside, last half, lining, opposite, palm, reverse side, sole, tip, top end, undersurface, wrong side), こうぶ (imperial court, military training, nobles and soldiers, stern), こうれつ (back row), あと (after, behind, later, mark, remainder, remains, ruins, scar, sign, successor, trace, tracks), はいご (back, obsolete word), はいめん (back, reverse). (various references) | |
Korean | 후방 (Hind). (various references) | |
Manx | troggal (arise, boost, breed, breeding, bring off, bringing up, build, building, buzz off, construct, contract, contract as disease, contraction, development, edifice, elaborate, elaboration, elevate, freshen, freshen of wind, gather up, getting up, harvest, heave, heave as shoulders, hoist, input, invoke, lift, lifting, nurture, pick off; absorption, pick up, pull in, put up, raise, raise up, rally, rearing, rig up, rise, set in rows, sing up, structure, take, train, train as child, winch, wind, winding). (various references) | |
Norwegian | baklys (rear-lamp, rear-light, tail-light), bakhjul (back wheel, hind wheel, rear wheel). (various references) | |
Papiamen | rasa (breed, keep, race, raise). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | earray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | retaguarda (buttocks, rearguard, rearward), criar (beget, breed, bring up, coin, cradle, create, educate, form, foster, generate, keep, make, make up, mint, nurture, originate, preserve, raise). (various references) | |
Romanian | creşte (accrue, advance, augment, be up, breed, bring, bring up, crop, cultivate, develop, draw out, educate, go up, grow, grow rife, heighten, increase, intensify, keep, make, Mount, multiply, nurse, nurture, produce, propagate, raise, rise, school, spring, spurt, straggle, train, wax). (various references) | |
Russian | выкормить (raise), арьергард (defence, rear guard, rearguard, rearward), задний (after, back, hind, hinder, postern, rearward), задняя сторона, огузок (aitchbone), отхожее место (latrine, outhouse), поднимать (boost, draw up, elevate, fly, lift, pick up, raise, take up, turn up, up, upheave, uplift, upraise, weigh up), воспитывать (breed, bring up, educate), ягодицы (breech, butt, buttocks, fundament, nates, prat), вскармливать (nurse), � (abide, agrarian, airmail, Algiers, alphabet, aluminium, amnesty, Arabia, Brabant, bronze, Cairo, castle, Chile, climb, clothe, door, English, everlasting, factory, find, know, love, lyric, madness, maintain, marsh, matter, menu, Mexico City, monkey, nearby, nought, pants, patient, pilgrimage, pregnant, quickly, rapid, sentence, sheet, squirrel, take away, the Netherlands, theology, tiger, to, tup, useful, wealth, work, yes), тыл (rearward), тыльный (dorsal, rearmost), спина (back), сооружать....задняя сторона / задний, воздвигать (erect, raise, set up). (various references) | |
Scottish | tog (brew, build, distil, educate, excite, lever, lift, raise), oil (educate, grief : is oil leam, it is an offence to me, pain, vexation), deireadh (end, hindmost place), altrum (cherish, foster, fostering, nurse). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | rovit (weak), završni (closing, concluding, end up, ending, recessional, terminal), zaleđe (back, boondocks, hinterland), zadnjica (ass, backside, behind, butt, buttocks, fanny, fundament, nates, posterior, rump), zadnji (after, back, hidden, hinder, last, latest, rearward, reversing, ulterior), tur (behind), stražnji (beck, postern), pozadina (back, backdrop, background, posteriority, rear area), podizati (erect, raise), podići (boost, elevate, inflate, lift, pass under, pick up, pull up, put up, raise, uplift, upraise), odgajati (breed, grow). (various references) | |
Spanish | trasero (after, back, backside, behind, bottom, breech, hind, hinder, posterior, quarters, rearmost, rear-mounted, rearward, seat, tail), revés (back, backhand, backhand stroke, backset, backstroke, check, come down, reverse, reverse side, setback, upset), retaguardia (defence, hinterland, rearguard, rearward). (various references) | |
Swedish | uppfostra (breed, bring up, educate, raise), uppföda (breed, bring up, nourish, nurture, raise), stegra sig, bakdel (backside, behind, breech, fundament, hindquarter, nates, posterior, rump, seat). (various references) | |
Turkish | inşa etmek (build, construct, erect), arka taraf (back side, backside, reverse, stern), arkadaki (back, hind, hinder, posterior, rearward), art, şahlanmak (ramp, rear up), büyütmek (aggrandize, amplify, augment, blow up, bring up, dilate, dramatize, enhance, enlarge, exaggerate, expand, Foster, glorify, greaten, grow, magnify, make big, make the most of, nourish, nurture, overstate, raise, rebore, soup up), dikmek (bed, bed out, construct, crop, engraft, erect, fix, ingraft, lay down, needle, perk, perk up, plant, post, prick, prick up, put stitches in, raise, rest, rest on, rivet, seam, seam together, seam up, set, set out, set up, sew, sew up, sow, stitch up, suture, tailor, Upend), arka (back, backer, backing, breech, contuniation, dors-, dorso-, friend at court, hind, posterior, rearward, reverse, reverse side, small, stern, support, supporter, tail), geri plân (background, distances), yukarı kaldırmak (lift, lift up, uplift), kıç (arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, breech, bum, butt, buttocks, can, Fanny, fundament, ham, haunches, hindquarters, hip, nates, poop, posterior, rear end, rump, slats, stern, tail, tail end, vent), kaldırmak (abolish, arouse, blank out, blue pencil, boost, Brook, cancel, carry, clear, clear away, deration, do away with, elevate, erect, get up, give smb. a lift, heave, heft, hoist, hold, hold up, Jack, jack up, lift, lift up, move away, perk, perk up, pick off, pick up, poise, pull up, put aside, put away, put by, put up, quash, raise, reap, receive, remove, scoop up, setaside, take off, take up, turn up, upheave, uphold, upraise), popo (backside, behind, breech, bum, butt, buttocks, can, posterior, rear end), ters taraf (back, reverse, reverse side), tuvalet (bathroom, cloakroom, closet, convenience, dress clothes, formal, John, latrine, lav, lavatory, loo, privy, rest room, restroom, retiring room, toilet, washroom, wash-room, water closet), yükseltmek (advance, amplify, boost, bump up, drive up, elevate, enhance, ennoble, escalate, exalt, force, get up, heighten, hike up, increase, Jack, jack up, lift, lift up, Louden, mark up, promote, push up, raise, rise, run up, scale up, screw up, send up, set up, step up, strengthen, swell out, swell up, up, upgrade, upheave, uplift), yetiştirmek (breed, bring up, coach, cradle, cultivate, discipline, educate, farm, groom, grow, nurture, produce, raise, rush, school, train, turn out), geri (aback, back, backward, backwards, behind, hind, posterior, re-, rearward, rest, retro-, reverse, reversing, slow). (various references) | |
Turkmen | yz (backside, trace), tyl (base). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | хвостовий (caudal, tail), тильний бік, тильний, тиловий (back, bomb-proof, rearmost, rearward), тил, культивувати (cultivate), зводити (balance, throw together), задній (after, back, hind, hinder, posterior, rearward), піднімати (boost, bring up, draw up, elevate, haul up, heave, heft, hoist, levitate, lift, prong, put up, raise, raise up, set up, take up, up, upbear, uphold, uplift, waken). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cầu tiêu, bộ phận đằng sau, ở phía sau (after, rearward), ở cuối, ở đằng sau (hind, hinder, retral). (various references) | |
Welsh | meithrin (foster, nurture), magu (acquire, breed, gain, nurse). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | a . . . e. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adali, alam, alas, alat, alatur, alebat, alenda, alendis, alerentur, aletur, alimis, alis, alit, aliti, alitur, alta, altam, altas, alti, altis, alto, altos, altum, altus, alui, alvi, educ, educa, educabit, educam, educant, educas, educat, educate, educaverunt, educavi, educavit, educebantur, educebas, educens, educentes, educentium, educentur, educere, educerem, educerent, educeres, educeret, educeretur, educes, educet, educimur, educis, educit, educite, educta, eductam, educti, eductis, eductum, eductus, educunt, eduxerat, eduxerim, eduxeris, eduxerit, eduxero, eduxerunt, eduxeruntque, eduxi, eduxique, eduxissent, eduxisset, eduxisti, eduxistis, eduxit, eduxitque, enutriat, enutrierint, enutries, enutriet, enutriit, enutristi, enutristis, enutriti, enutritus, enutrivi, enutrivit, eo, novissima, novissimae, novissimam, novissimas, novissimi, novissimis, novissimo, novissimorum, novissimos, novissimum, novissimus, nutricem, nutrices, nutrio, posticam, retro, subal, summitto, terga, tergo, tergum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | John Chapter 2, Verse 20 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Eipon oun oi ioudaioi tessarakonta kai ex etesin wkodomhqh o naoV outoV kai su en trisin hmeraiV egereiV auton |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Dixerunt ergo Iudaei quadraginta et sex annis aedificatum est templum hoc et tu tribus diebus excitabis illud |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ða iudeas cwæðen to hym. þis tempelwæs ge-tymbred on six & feortigon wintren.& arerst þu hit on ðrim dagum. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Therfor the Jewis seiden to hym, In fourti and sixe yeer this temple was bildid, and schalt thou in thre daies reise it? |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Then sayde the Iewes: xlvi. yeares was this temple abuyldinge: and wylt thou reare it vp in thre dayes? |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The Jews said, The building of this Temple took forty-six years; and you will put it up in three days! |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | John Chapter 2, Verse 20 |
| Cebuano | Ug ang mga Judio nanagpanubag, "Kining temploha gitukod sulod sa kap-atan ug unom ka tuig, ug imong patindugon kini sulod sa tulo ka adlaw?" |
| Croatian | Rekoše mu nato Židovi: "Èetrdeset i šest godina gradio se ovaj Hram, a ti da æeš ga u tri dana podiæi?" |
| Danish | Da sagde Jøderne: "I seks og fyrretyve År er der bygget på dette Tempel, og du vil oprejse det i tre Dage?" |
| Dutch | De Joden zeiden dan: Zes en veertig jaren is over dezen tempel gebouwd, en Gij, zult Gij dien in drie dagen oprichten? |
| Finnish | Niin juutalaiset sanoivat: "Neljäkymmentä kuusi vuotta on tätä temppeliä rakennettu, ja sinäkö pystytät sen kolmessa päivässä?" |
| French | Les Juifs dirent: Il a fallu quarante-six ans pour bâtir ce temple, et toi, en trois jours tu le relèveras! |
| German | Da sprachen die Juden: Dieser Tempel ist in Jahren erbaut; und du willst ihn in drei Tagen aufrichten? |
| Haitian Creole | Jwif yo di li: Yo pran karannsizan pou yo bati tanp sa a, pou ou menm, pou ou ta pran twa sèl jou pou rebati li? |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Lalu mereka berkata, "Empat puluh enam tahun dibutuhkan untuk membangun Rumah Tuhan ini. Dan Engkau mau membangunnya kembali dalam tiga hari?" |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka kata orang Yahudi itu, "Empat puluh enam tahun lamanya orang membangunkan Bait Allah ini, dan Engkau ini dapat membangunkan dia di dalam tiga hari?" |
| Italian | Gli dissero allora i Giudei: «Questo tempio è stato costruito in quarantasei anni e tu in tre giorni lo farai risorgere?». |
| Latvian | Tad jûdi sacîja: Èetrdesmit seðus gadus ðî svçtnîca celta, un Tu to uzcelsi trijâs dienâs? |
| Maori | Ano ra ko nga Hurai, E wha tekau ma ono nga tau i hanga ai tenei whare tapu, e oti ranei te hanga e koe i nga ra e toru? |
| Norwegian | Da sa jødene: I seks og firti år har det vært bygget på dette tempel, og du vil gjenreise det på tre dager? |
| Portuguese | Disseram, pois, os judeus: Em quarenta e seis anos foi edificado este santuário, e tu o levantarás em três dias? |
| Rumanian | Iudeii au zis: ,,Au trebuit patruzeci wi wase de ani, ca sq se zideascq Templul acesta, wi Tu kl vei ridica kn trei zile?`` |
| Swahili | Hapo Wayahudi wakasema, "Hekalu hili lilijengwa kwa muda wa miaka arobaini na sita. Je, wewe utalijenga kwa siku tatu?" |
| Swedish | Då sade judarna: "I fyrtiosex år har man byggt på detta tempel, och du skulle låta det uppstå igen inom tre dagar?" |
| Uma | Konce-ra topoparenta to Yahudi, ra'uli': "Beiwa!? Tomi Alata'ala toi rawangu rala-na opo' mpulu' ono mpae, hiaa' nu'uli' -kona nuwangu nculii' rala-na tolu eo-wadi?" |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "rear": reared, rearer, rearers, rearguard, reargue, reargued, reargues, rearguing, reargument, rearguments, rearing, rearm, rearmament, rearmaments, rearmed, rearmice, rearming, rearmost, rearmouse, rearms, rearousal, rearousals, rearouse, rearoused, rearouses, rearousing, rearrange, rearranged, rearrangement, rearrangements, rearranges, rearranging, rearrest, rearrested, rearresting, rearrests, rears, rearticulate, rearticulated, rearticulates, rearticulating, rearward, rearwards. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "rear": arrear, drear, uprear. (additional references) | |
Words containing "rear": arrearage, arrearages, arrears, drearier, drearies, dreariest, drearily, dreariness, drearinesses, drears, dreary, dundrearies, firearm, firearms, forearm, forearmed, forearming, forearms, overearnest, prearm, prearmed, prearming, prearms, prearrange, prearranged, prearrangement, prearrangements, prearranges, prearranging, squirearchies, squirearchy, upreared, uprearing, uprears. (additional references) | |
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"Rear" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arar, Crear, Cregar, Crerar, erar, Erard, grear, prear, raargh, ragar, Rair, Rajaori, ramar, rar, rara, rarf, Rarx, Ravar, reab, reac, reaf, Reag, reah, reamr, reard, reat, reau, reav, reaw, reax, reay, rebarb, rebare, recr, redr, reer, reery, refr, regar, regr, reir, rejar, reka, remar, renar, reor, reour, repar, repr, reqard, rer, rerare, rere, reri, rerr, resr, retr, revar, Rexa, rexar, reza, rezag, riar, riarr, Riera, rior, rizar, Ruairi, ruar, ruiari, Ruiru, runar, rurar, ryar, ryea, trear, wrear. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rear" (pronounced ri"r) |
| 3 | r i" r | Frere. |
| 2 | -i" r | adhere, Amir, appear, auctioneer, austere, bandolier, beer, belvedere, bioengineer, bombardier, Brigadier, budgeteer, career, cashier, cavalier, chandelier, cheer, Chevalier, clear, commandeer, conventioneer, dear, deer, disappear, domineer, ear, electioneer, emir, engineer, fear, financier, fleer, frontier, gear, gondolier, hear, here, insincere, interfere, jeer, Kier, Lear, marketeer, mere, mir, mutineer, near, overhear, pamphleteer, peer, persevere, pier, pioneer, premier, premiere, profiteer, queer, Racketeer, Rainier, reappear, reengineer, rehear, revere, sear, sere, severe, shear, sheer, sincere, smear, sneer, souvenir, spear, Speer, speir, sphere, steer, summiteer, unclear, veer, veneer, volunteer, year, Zaire. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: rare. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-r-r" | |
-1 letter: are, ear, era, err. | |
-2 letters: ae, ar, er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-r-r" | |
+1 letter: airer, armer, barer, barre, carer, darer, drear, farer, parer, racer, raker, raper, rared, rarer, rares, raser, rater, raver, rawer, razer, rearm, rears, rebar, reran, tarre, terra, urare, yarer. | |
+2 letters: adorer, aerier, airers, airier, archer, arguer, arider, armers, armure, arrear, arrest, arrive, artery, artier, barber, barker, barred, barrel, barren, barres, barret, barter, bearer, bracer, braver, brawer, brayer, brazer, carder, career, carers, carper, carrel, carter, carver, crater, craver, curare, darers, darker, darner, darter, dearer, draper, drawer, drears, dreary, earner, eraser, errand, errant, errata, fairer, farcer, farers, farmer, fearer, framer, frater, garner, garred, garret, garter, grader, grater, graver, grayer, grazer, harder, harmer, harper, hearer, irater, irreal, jarred, kerria, krater, larder, larger, larker, marker, marred, marrer, nearer, parers, parker, parred, parrel, parser, parure, prater, prayer, prearm, prewar, racers, racier, racker, rafter, raider, railer, raiser, rakers, rammer, ranger, ranker, ranter, rapers, rapier, rapper, rarefy, rarely, rarest, rasers, rasher, rasper, raster, rasure, raters, rather, ratter, ravers, razers, reader, realer, reamer, reaper, reared, rearer, rearms, reaver, rebars, redear, redraw, reearn, regard, regear, rehear, remark, remora, repair, repark, rerack, reread, retard, retear, retral, reward, rewarm, rewrap, roamer, roared, roarer, scarer, searer, sharer, sierra, snarer, soarer, sparer, starer, tarred, tarres, tarter, tearer, terrae, terras, tracer, trader, uprear, urares, varier, warder, warier, warmer, warner, warper, warred, warren, wearer, yarner. | |
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