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Adjective rear has 1 sense
- rear, rearward - located in or toward the back or rear; "the chair's rear legs"; "the rear door of the plane"; "on the rearward side"
Antonym: front (indirect, via back)
Noun rear has 5 senses
- rear - the back of a military formation or procession; "infantrymen were in the rear"
--1 is a kind of formation
Antonyms: head
- rear, backside, back end - the side of an object that is opposite its front; "his room was toward the rear of the hotel"
--2 is a kind of side, face
Antonyms: front, front end, forepart
--2 has particulars: nape, scruff, nucha; rearward
- back, 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"
--3 is a kind of position, place
- 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 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?"
--4 is a kind of body part
--4 is a part of torso, trunk, body
- rear, back - the side that goes last or is not normally seen; "he wrote the date on the back of the photograph"
--5 is a kind of side
Antonyms: front
--5 has particulars:
Verb rear has 5 senses
- rear, rise up - stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds; "The horse reared in terror"
--1 is one way to straighten
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
- rear, raise, bring up, nurture, parent - bring up; "raise a family"; "bring up children"
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- rise, lift, rear - rise up; "The building rose before them"
--3 is one way to look, appear, seem
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
- rear, erect - cause to rise up
--4 is one way to raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- raise, erect, rear, set up, put up - construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn"
--5 is one way to construct, build, make
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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