2. (noun)rear, backside, back end the side of an object that is opposite its front "his room was toward the rear of the hotel"
3. (noun)back, rear the part of something that is furthest from the normalviewer "he stood at the back of the stage"; "it was hidden in the rear of the store"
4. (noun)buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass the fleshy part of the humanbody that you sit on
"he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"
5. (noun)rear, back the side that goes last or is not normally seen
"he wrote the date on the back of the photograph"
6. (adj)rear(a), rearward(a) located in or toward the back or rear "the chair's rear legs"; "the rear door of the plane"; "on the rearward side"
7. (verb)rear, rise up stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds
"The horse reared in terror"
8. (verb)rear, raise, bring up, nurture, parent bring up
"raise a family"; "bring up children"
9. (verb)rise, lift, rear rise up
"The building rose before them"
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