rere

Noun

 * 1)  (all meanings).
 * 2)  back portion or area behind (a building, etc.)

Quotations

 * 1678 "In the rere of them fall others of the city trumpets; after them two gentlemen bearing the banners of the city and the Lord Mayor; twelve gentlemen ushers appointed as aforesaid follow them, and after them the court of assistants put a period to that division. In the rere of them falls the serjeant trumpet, after him sixteen other of the king's trumpets and kettle-drums; ..." The Triumphs of London (Reprinted 1869 in Some account of the Worshipful company of grocers of the city of London, by John Benjamin Heath)
 * 1784 "So out we sallied, the corporal lending his master his arm, and bringing up the rere, to the abby of Saint Grmain [sic]" Tristram Shandy Vol.3, p.44, Lawrence Sterne
 * 1855 "It begins by setting out all the tenants' names; the frontage, the depth, and the reres of the several plots." Archdeacon Hewitson's Endowment For A Protestant School At Swords, Endowed Schools, Ireland, Commission, minutes of evidence, Vol. II in Parliamentary papers, Volume 22, Part 3, p.33
 * 1922 "He trod the worn steps, pushed the swingdoor and entered softly by the rere." Ulysses, Chapter V James Joyce
 * 1986 "the arcade at the rere of the General Post Office" Dublin Metropolitan Streets Commission Act, 1986: First Schedule
 * 1995 "the unnamed laneway to the rere of Nos. 1-8 Merview" S.I. No. 248/1995 — Urban Renewal Act, 1986 (Designated Areas) (Cobh) Order, 1995; Schedule, Part II, Harbour Row Area
 * 1996 "First Floor/Rere Room: Doors, door cases, chimney piece, decorative plaster ceiling." Written Answers. - Departmental Buildings Dáil Éireann - Volume 463 - 26 March, 1996
 * 2009 "permission sought for proposed (1) garage conversion and first floor extension to side, (2) single storey extension to rere, and (3) alterations to front single-storey element and wider vehicular entrance at [address]" Malahide planning notices Fingal Independent, 18 November 2009

Etymology
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Adverb

 * 1) behind, at the back

Preposition

 * 1) behind, at the back of
 * 2) after (behind in place)
 * 3) after, by

Etymology 1
From, from (see ).

Adjective

 * 1)  Referring to eggs: underdone, undercooked; soft-boiled
 * 2)  Referring to sins: unconfessed

Etymology 2
From, from.

Adjective

 * 1)   Succeeding, successive, next, following.
 * 2)  Located at the rear, hind, or back.

Etymology 3
From,.

Adverb

 * 1) Not at all, neither in front nor behind;
 * 2) Neither sooner nor later?

Etymology
From, from , present active infinitive of.

Verb

 * 1) to shave

Etymology 1
From.

Adjective

 * 1) late
 * 2) after; later on

Adverb

 * 1) behind

Etymology 2
From.

Verb

 * 1) to shave
 * 2) to scrape off, raze
 * 3) to erase
 * 1) to erase

Verb

 * 1) fly