- Rear may refer to: Animals[edit]. Rear (horse), when a horse lifts its front legs off the ground. ... Gender of rearing, the gender in which parents rear a child.
- (v. t.) To bring up to maturity, as young; to educate; to instruct; to foster; as, to rear offspring. (v. i.) To rise up on the hind legs, as a horse; to become erect.
- The rear is the back end of something, like the rear of a school bus or the members of the marching band who stand at the rear of the parade.
- Rear definition: the back of something, as distinguished from the front. See examples of REAR used in a sentence.
- Now: to be taught a lesson in an unforgiving manner in any activity, usually a sport or a video game. Essentially a synonym for "schooled", rear also acts as a...
- The rear is the back end of something, like the rear of a school bus or the members of the marching band who stand at the rear of the parade.
- [count] informal : the part of your body that you sit on : buttocks — usually singular. He slipped and fell on his rear. [=rear end].
- Then there's the tough nature of it all: it'll withstand bending and it has a self-repairing rear cover. ... Place the book with the rear cover down on a sturdy surface.
- As an adjective, "hindmost; pertaining to or situated in the rear," c. 1300, from Old French rere. To bring up the rear "come last in order" is from 1640s.
- legs, of quadrupeds(2) look after a child until it is an adult(3) rise up(4) cause to rise up(5) construct, build, or erect Adjective(1) located in or toward the back or rear.