Rear may refer to:
- Rear (children), to bring up children
- Rear (military), the area of a battlefield behind the front line
- Rear (horse), when a stands on its hind legs
- Rear end, the buttocks
Famous quotes containing the word rear:
“To rear a tiger is to court calamity.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)