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| Main Entry: | rear |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | back, end |
| Synonyms: | aft, after, astern, backward, behind, following, hinder, hindmost, last, posterior, reverse, stern, tail, dorsal, hind, hindermost, mizzen, postern, rearmost, rearward, retral |
| Notes: | one rears children and raises crops |
| Antonyms: | beginning, front |
| Main Entry: | rear |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | back or end part |
| Synonyms: | back, back door*, backside, behind, bottom, butt, buttocks, end, heel, posterior, rear end, reverse, rump, seat, stern, tail, afterpart, back end, back seat, hind, hind part, hindquarters, postern, rear guard, rearward, tail end, tailpiece, tush |
| Antonyms: | beginning, front |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | raise young |
| Synonyms: | breed, bring up, cultivate, educate, foster, grow, nurse, nurture, propagate, train, care for |
| Antonyms: | abandon, neglect |
| Main Entry: | rear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lift, rise |
| Synonyms: | bring up, elevate, hoist, hold up, jump, leap, loom, pick up, raise, soar, support, take up, tower, turn up, uphold, uplift, set upright, spring up, upraise |
| Antonyms: | drop, fall |
| Main Entry: | rear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | build |
| Synonyms: | construct, erect, fabricate, put up, raise, set up, uprear |
| Antonyms: | destroy |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Synonyms: |
-nouns
rear, back, posteriority; rear rank, rear guard; background, hinterland., occiput, nape, chine; heels; tail, rump, croup, buttock, posteriors, backside, scut, breech, dorsum, loin; dorsal region, lumbar region; hind quarters; aitchbone; natch, natch bone., stern, poop, afterpart, heelpiece, crupper., wake; train (sequence) [more]., reverse; other side of the shield.
-verbs
be behind; fall astern; bend backwards; bring up the rear.
-adjectives
back, rear; hind, hinder, hindmost, hindermost; postern, posterior; dorsal, after; caudal, lumbar; mizzen, tergal.
-adverbs
behind; in the rear, in the background; behind one's back; at the heels of, at the tail of, at the back of; back to back., after, aft, abaft, astern, sternmost, aback, rearward.
-phrases
ogni medaglia ha il suo rovescio.
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| Antonyms: | front |
| Main Entry: | after |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | following in position or time |
| Synonyms: | afterwards, back, behind, below, ensuing, hindmost, later, next, posterior, rear, subsequently, thereafter, back of, hind, in the rear, postliminary, subsequential, succeeding |
| Antonyms: | before |
| Main Entry: | astern |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | backward |
| Synonyms: | abaft, aft, rear, rearward |
| Antonyms: | forward |
| Main Entry: | back |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | end part |
| Synonyms: | aft, backside, extremity, posterior, rear, reverse, stern, tail, back end, far end, hindpart, hindquarters, tail end, tailpiece |
| Antonyms: | front |
| Main Entry: | backside |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rear end |
| Synonyms: | behind, bottom, butt*, buttocks, fanny*, posterior, rear, rump*, seat*, tail*, derrière, tush |
| Antonyms: | front |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | behind |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | buttocks |
| Synonyms: | backside, bottom, can*, fanny*, posterior, rear, rump, seat, tail, breech, derrière, fundament, tush |
| Antonyms: | front |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | construct |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assemble, build |
| Synonyms: | build up, compose, compound, constitute, cook up*, create, design, dream up*, elevate, engineer, envision, erect, establish, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, formulate, found, frame, hammer out*, imagine, invent, make, manufacture, organize, produce, put out, put together, put up, raise, rear, set up, shape, throw up*, whip up*, cobble up, fudge together, hoke up, prefab, throw together, trump up, uprear |
| Antonyms: | annihilate, break, demolish, destroy, dismantle, raze, ruin |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | create |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | develop in mind or physically |
| Synonyms: | actualize, author, beget, bring to pass, build, coin, compose, conceive, concoct, constitute, construct, contrive, design, devise, discover, dream up, effect, erect, establish, fabricate, fashion, father, forge, form, formulate, found, generate, hatch, imagine, initiate, institute, invent, invest, make, occasion, organize, originate, parent, perform, plan, procreate, produce, rear, set up, shape, sire, spawn, start, bring into being, bring into existence, cause to be, give birth to, give life to |
| Antonyms: | destroy, ruin |
| Main Entry: | derriere |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | backside |
| Synonyms: | ass, bottom, buttocks, can, fanny, keister, posterior, rear, rear end, seat, buns, cheeks, heinie |
| Main Entry: | educate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | teach information, experience |
| Synonyms: | brainwash*, brief, civilize, coach, cultivate, develop, discipline, drill, drum into, edify, enlighten, exercise, explain, foster, improve, indoctrinate, inform, instruct, mature, nurture, rear, school, train, tutor, let in on, put hip, put through the grind, show the ropes |
| Antonyms: | learn |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | erect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | build; establish |
| Synonyms: | assemble, bring about, cock, compose, construct, create, effect, elevate, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, found, frame, heighten, hoist, initiate, institute, join, lift, make, make up, manufacture, mount, organize, pitch, plant, produce, put together, put up, raise, rear, set up, shape, stand, throw up, cobble up, fit together, fudge together, knock together, prefabricate, run up, stand up, throw together, upraise, uprear |
| Antonyms: | raze, topple |
| Main Entry: | following |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happening, being next or after |
| Synonyms: | afterward, attendant, back, coming, consecutive, consequent, consequential, ensuing, henceforth, hinder, later, latter, next, posterior, presently, proximate, pursuing, rear, sequential, serial, specified, subsequent, successive, then, trailing, when, a while later, after a while, by and by, coming after, coming next, directly after, in pursuit, in search of, in the wake of, later on, next off, on the scent, resulting, sequent, seriate, succeeding, supervenient |
| Antonyms: | first, leading, preceding |
| Main Entry: | hoist |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lift |
| Synonyms: | elevate, erect, heave, pick up, raise, rear, take up, uphold, uplift, upraise, uprear |
| Antonyms: | drop, fall, lower, push, hold down |
| Main Entry: | loom |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | appear, often imposingly |
| Synonyms: | approach, await, brew, bulk, come on, dawn, dominate, emanate, emerge, figure, gather, hover, impress, issue, lower, make up, menace, mount, near, overhang, overshadow, portend, rear, rise, show, soar, stand out, threaten, top, tower, be at hand, be coming, be forthcoming, be imminent, be in the cards, be in the wind, be near, become visible, break through, come forth, come into view, come on the scene, hang over, impend, overtop, seem huge, seem large, take shape |
| Main Entry: | nurture |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | feed, care for |
| Synonyms: | back, bolster, bring up, cherish, cultivate, develop, discipline, educate, foster, instruct, nourish, nurse, provide, raise, rear, school, support, sustain, tend, train, uphold, nursle |
| Antonyms: | deprive, ignore, neglect, starve |
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