rear
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the back of a military formation or procession
infantrymen were in the rear
Types & categories
- formation hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds
The horse reared in terror
Types & categories
- straighten hypernym
- rear back hyponym
Sense 3 noun
the side of an object that is opposite its front
his room was toward the rear of the hotel
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 4 verb
bring up
raise a family
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 5 noun
the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
he stood at the back of the stage
Types & categories
- position hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 6 verb
rise up
The building rose before them
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- rising slope derivation
Sense 7 noun
the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
he deserves a good kick in the butt
Types & categories
- body part hypernym
Parts & wholes
- torso part holonym
Related & opposite
- posterior derivation
Sense 8 verb
cause to rise up
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- erecting derivation
Sense 9 noun
the side that goes last or is not normally seen
he wrote the date on the back of the photograph
Types & categories
- side hypernym
- stern hyponym
- tail assembly hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 10 verb
construct, build, or erect
Raise a barn
Types & categories
- build hypernym
Related & opposite
- dismantle antonym
- erecting derivation
- erection derivation
- construction domain topic
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | head |
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | military |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | formation |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | straighten |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | rear back |
| 3 | antonym | Related & opposite | front |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | reara |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | side |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | nape |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | rearward |
| 4 | causes | Related & opposite | grow up |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | bringing up |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | nurture |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | ancestry |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | parent |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | parentage |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | parentage |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | fledge |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | cradle |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | foster |
| 5 | antonym | Related & opposite | front |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | reara |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | position |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | rising slope |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | appear |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | hulk |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | posterior |
| 7 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | torso |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | body part |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | erecting |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | lift |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | pitch |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | prick up |
| 9 | antonym | Related & opposite | front |
| 9 | derivation | Related & opposite | back |
| 9 | derivation | Related & opposite | reara |
| 9 | hypernym | Types & categories | side |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | stern |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | tail assembly |
| 10 | antonym | Related & opposite | dismantle |
| 10 | derivation | Related & opposite | erecting |
| 10 | derivation | Related & opposite | erection |
| 10 | domain topic | Related & opposite | construction |
| 10 | hypernym | Types & categories | build |