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Posterior

//pɒsˈtɪə.ɹi.ə// adj, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Nearer the rear or hind end; nearer the caudal end of the body in quadrupeds or the dorsal end in bipeds.; Relating to or denoting presentation of a fetus in which the rear or caudal end is nearest the cervix and emerges first at birth.
  2. 2
    Nearer the rear or hind end; nearer the caudal end of the body in quadrupeds or the dorsal end in bipeds.; Next to, or facing the main stem or axis.
  3. 3
    Following in order or in time. formal
Adjective
  1. 1
    coming at a subsequent time or stage wordnet
  2. 2
    located at or near or behind a part or near the end of a structure wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    The posterior portions of the human body; especially, the buttocks. euphemistic, humorous, sometimes

    "Stephen reigned from 1135-1154, that nasty period of our history dubbed 'The Anarchy', when forces loyal to Stephen contested the throne with those of Henry I's daughter Matilda, who by rights should have been queen. Stephen, her cousin, plonked his own posterior on the throne."

  2. 2
    a tooth situated at the back of the mouth wordnet
  3. 3
    The probability that a hypothesis is true (calculated by Bayes' theorem).
  4. 4
    the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin posterior (“that comes or follows after; later, latter”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin posterior (“that comes or follows after; later, latter”).

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