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How to pronounce “rear”
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Pronunciation guide for rear
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of rear with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
as a rear gunner, that's really kind of ironic, and sort of,
- Definition summary
- (transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce rear
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

as a rear gunner, that's really kind of ironic, and sort of,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “rear”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
- (transitive, said of people towards animals) To breed and raise.
- (intransitive) To rise up on the hind legs.
- (intransitive, usually with "up") To get angry.
- (intransitive) To rise high above, tower above.
- (transitive, literary) To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
- (transitive, rare) To construct by building; to set up
- (transitive, rare) To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
- (transitive, obsolete) To lift and take up.
- (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.
- (military) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
- (anatomy) The buttocks or bottom.
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