rear

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from , , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬; and a. More at.

Related to rise and raise, which is used for several of its now archaic or obsolete senses and for some of its senses that are currently more common in other dialects of English.

Verb



 * 1)  To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
 * 2)  To breed and raise.
 * 3)  To rise up on the hind legs
 * 4)  To get angry.
 * 5)  To rise high above, tower above.
 * 6)  To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
 * Poverty reared its ugly head. appeared, started, began to have an effect
 * The monster slowly reared its head.
 * 1)  To construct by building; to set up
 * to rear defenses or houses
 * to rear one government on the ruins of another.
 * 1)  To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
 * 2)  To lift and take up.
 * 3)  To rouse; to strip up.
 * to rear defenses or houses
 * to rear one government on the ruins of another.
 * 1)  To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
 * 2)  To lift and take up.
 * 3)  To rouse; to strip up.
 * 1)  To lift and take up.
 * 2)  To rouse; to strip up.
 * 1)  To rouse; to strip up.

Usage notes

 * It is standard US English to raise children, and this usage has become common in all kinds of English since the 1700s. Until fairly recently, however, US teachers taught the traditional rule that one should raise crops and animals, but rear children, despite the fact that this contradicted general usage. It is therefore not surprising that some people still prefer to rear children and that this is considered correct but formal in US English. It is widespread in UK English and not considered formal.


 * It is generally considered incorrect to rear crops or (adult) animals in US English, but this expression is common in UK English.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Irish: tóg
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Russian:, , , , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: tog
 * Spanish:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:


 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: そびえ立つ
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian:, , , , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: tog
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: vychovat
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Ewe: nyi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: τρέφω
 * Ido:
 * Irish: tóg
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: پێگەیشتن, پەروەردە کردن
 * Lao:
 * Latvian: audzināt
 * Maori: whakatipu, whakatupu
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: tog
 * Spanish:
 * Thai:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: τρέφω
 * Ido:
 * Irish: tóg
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Khmer:
 * Lao:
 * Maori: whakatupu
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: tog
 * Spanish:
 * Thai:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Bulgarian: изправям се на задни крака
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: nousta takajaloilleen
 * Georgian: ყალყზე დადგომა
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 後ろ足立ちする
 * Maori: tānapu
 * Polish:
 * Russian: встава́ть на дыбы́, встать на дыбы́

Etymology 2
From, from , ultimately from. Compare arrear. .

Adjective

 * 1) Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost

Translations

 * Arabic: خَلْفِيّ
 * Belarusian: за́дні, ты́льны
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ὀπίσθιος
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: ,
 * Latin: postīcus
 * Macedonian: заден
 * Norman: arriéthe
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: bakre
 * Nynorsk: bakre
 * Polabian: aχterskă
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: за̏дњӣ
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: за́дній, ти́льний

Adverb

 * 1)  early; soon

Noun

 * 1) The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order.
 * 2)  Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
 * 3)  The buttocks or bottom.
 * 1)  Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
 * 2)  The buttocks or bottom.
 * 1)  The buttocks or bottom.

Translations

 * Afar: sarra
 * Armenian: ,
 * Bulgarian: задна част
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: bagdel
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, , peräpää
 * Hungarian:, , hátsó fertály
 * Ingrian: perä
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:
 * Maori: muri
 * Norman: arriéthe
 * Ottoman Turkish: آرد
 * Pashto:, څټ
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: за́дняя часть, за́дняя сторона́,
 * Saho: sarra
 * Spanish:


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: selusta, takajoukko
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Maori: hiku
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish: peräpää
 * French:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:, ,
 * Maori: kumu
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Walloon:


 * Ewe:
 * French:
 * Swedish:

Verb

 * 1) To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
 * 2)  To sodomize perform anal sex

Etymology 3
From, from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  To move; stir.
 * 2)  To carve.
 * Rear that goose!
 * 1)  To revive, bring to life, quicken. (only in the phrase, to rear to life)
 * (Speculum Sacerdotale c. 15th century)

Usage notes

 * In the sense "bring to life", the more common variant of to rear to life is to raise to life. “I pray you, Declan, servant of God, that in the name of Christ you would raise to life for me the seven hostages whom I held in bondage from the chieftains of Munster." (Life of Saint Declan of Ardmore By Saint Declan of Ardmore, Aeterna Press, 2015.)

Etymology 4
From, from , , from , from , from. Related to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1)   Underdone; nearly raw.
 * 2)   Rare.