From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
rear
adj 1: located in or toward the back or rear; "the chair's rear
legs"; "the rear door of the plane"; "on the rearward
side" [syn: rear(a), rearward(a)]
n 1: the back of a military formation or procession;
"infantrymen were in the rear" [ant: head]
2: the side of an object that is opposite its front; "his room
was toward the rear of the hotel" [syn: rear, backside,
back end] [ant: forepart, front, front end]
3: the part of something that is furthest from the normal
viewer; "he stood at the back of the stage"; "it was hidden
in the rear of the store" [syn: back, rear] [ant:
front]
4: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he
deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on
your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates,
arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can,
fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister,
posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern,
seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom,
behind, derriere, fanny, ass]
5: the side that goes last or is not normally seen; "he wrote
the date on the back of the photograph" [syn: rear, back]
[ant: front]
v 1: stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds; "The horse reared
in terror" [syn: rear, rise up]
2: bring up; "raise a family"; "bring up children" [syn: rear,
raise, bring up, nurture, parent]
3: rise up; "The building rose before them" [syn: rise,
lift, rear]
4: cause to rise up [syn: rear, erect]
5: construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn" [syn: raise,
erect, rear, set up, put up] [ant: dismantle,
level, pull down, rase, raze, take down, tear
down]