Usually means: Back or end of something.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word rear:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. rear: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rear: Merriam-Webster
  3. rear, rear: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rear, rear: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rear: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rear: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rear, rear: Wordnik
  8. rear, the rear: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. rear: Wiktionary
  10. rear: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rear: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. rear: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Rear, rear: Dictionary.com
  14. rear (n.), rear (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. rear: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Rear (disambiguation), Rear (horse), Rear (military), Rear: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Rear: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. rear: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. rear: Rhymezone
  20. rear: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. rear: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. rear: FreeDictionary.org
  23. rear: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. rear: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. rear: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rear: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rear: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. REAR: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. rear: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. REAR: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. rear, rear: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. rear: ESL Slang page
  3. Rear: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

(Note: See reared as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
verb:  (transitive, said of people towards animals) To breed and raise.
verb:  (intransitive) To rise up on the hind legs
verb:  (intransitive, usually with "up") To get angry.
verb:  (intransitive) To rise high above, tower above.
verb:  (transitive, literary) To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
verb:  (transitive, rare) To construct by building; to set up
verb:  (transitive, rare) To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To lift and take up.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To rouse; to strip up.
adjective:  Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost
adverb:  (British, dialect) early; soon
noun:  The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order.
noun:  (military) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
noun:  (anatomy) The buttocks or bottom.
verb:  To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
verb:  (transitive, vulgar, British) To sodomize (perform anal sex)
verb:  (transitive) To move; stir.
verb:  (transitive, of geese) To carve.
verb:  (regional, obsolete) To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life)
adjective:  (now chiefly dialectal) (of eggs) Underdone; nearly raw.
adjective:  (chiefly US) (of meats) Rare.

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