Definition of posterior in English:

posterior

adjective pɒˈstɪərɪə

1Anatomy
Further back in position; of or nearer the rear or hind end.
the posterior part of the gut
The opposite of anterior
a basal body situated just posterior to the nucleus
Example sentencesExamples
- When cool, insert a good knife or poultry shears, where the body and the tail are joined and cut towards the posterior, then turn the lobster around and cut toward the anterior.
- Tabes dorsalis involves the dorsal roots and posterior columns of the spinal cord.
- There was also a single, small cerebral metastasis in the white matter of the posterior occipital lobe.
- He had macroglossia, and a posterior position of the soft palate.
- The posterior lobe of the pituitary gland or neurohypophysis contains unique glial elements referred to as pituicytes.
- When body fluids become concentrated, more antidiuretic hormone is released from the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland, and acts in the kidneys to promote retention of water.
Synonyms
rear, hind, back, hinder, rearward
technical dorsal, caudal, posticous
1. 1.1Medicine Relating to or denoting presentation of a fetus in which the rear or caudal end is nearest the cervix and emerges first at birth.
  a posterior labour
  Example sentencesExamples
  The midwife visited this morning and the good news is that the head is engaged but the bad news is that the baby is posterior.
  Father is especially proud of mother, who resolved to labor naturally, and did so despite a forty-two hour labor and a posterior baby.
  Does the hands-and-knees posture during labour help to rotate the occiput posterior fetus?
2formal Coming after in time or order; later.
a date posterior to the first Reform Bill
Example sentencesExamples
- If our recognition of a Greek idiom in Ecclesiastes is valid, it points to a date posterior to the conquest of Alexander the Great.
- It would be folly, therefore, not to assign the authorship of the "Commentary" to a time posterior to the Early Edition.
- The Japanese data were also recently released by the Ministry of Finance of Japan but are available only for the period posterior to May 1991.
Synonyms
later than, subsequent to, following, succeeding, after

noun pɒˈstɪərɪə

humorous

A person's buttocks.
Example sentencesExamples
- But when it comes time to make that decision, almost 40 per cent of us fail to remove our posteriors from the couch and forfeit our voice in the nation's affairs.
- As my posterior touches down on porcelain, I let out a sigh of relief.
- My legs carried my plump, childish body to near her face, and I rested my posterior upon the ground.
- Bureaucrats are not known for their boldness; if something bad happens, they want some sort of shelter for their posteriors.
- He wriggles his posterior, as though testing the chair's rating for comfort.
- But if things do fall apart completely, we appear to be fortuitously well prepared for a descent into cannibalism judging by the plethora of plump posteriors wandering the malls.
- In fact, it's fairly easy to tell how much a person exercises just by checking out their posterior.
- By the time you stand up you feel like you have a basket weave pattern embossed on your posterior.
- People pack the cafes to eat several courses at lunch, yet their posteriors do not require three or four chairs apiece.
- Only once did I have a crash landing and create a hugely attractive mould of my posterior in the sand.
Synonyms
buttocks, behind, backside, rear, rear end, rump, seat, haunches, hindquarters, cheeks
British bottom
French derrière
German Sitzfleisch
informal sit-upon, stern, BTM, tochus, rusty dusty
British informal bum, botty, prat, jacksie
Scottish informal bahookie
North American informal butt, fanny, tush, tushie, tail, duff, buns, booty, caboose, heinie, patootie, keister, tuchis, bazoo, bippy
West Indian informal batty, rass
British vulgar slang arse, clunge
North American vulgar slang ass
technical nates
humorous fundament
archaic breech

Derivatives

posteriority

noun pɒˌstɪərɪˈɒrɪti

Anteriority, or posteriority, is a characteristic of the Gothic, in that it gives expression to what Enlightenment culture pushes to the back.
Example sentencesExamples
- He presented evidence for Aristotle's recognition of a type of term between equivocal and univocal terms, some instances of which were characterized by their use according to priority and posteriority.
- This very loaded broaching, through the use of the word posthumanous, of the thought of an extreme posteriority finds itself sternly warned by Derrida's words, above.
- Yet his writing is emptily abstract and opaque, e.g. As images of posteriority, ruins reveal the primordiality of the temporal law dial holds sway over their obsolescence.

posteriorly

adverb

In this case, however, it seems to be hard to develop a flat shell form, which rather requires a posteriorly skewed aperture map.
Example sentencesExamples
- Otherwise, the lateral surface is flat and vertical posteriorly.
- In at least many Chondrichthyes, the hypobranchials are well developed, although they point posteriorly.
- The amphidetic ligament extends both anteriorly and posteriorly.
- A 14 year old boy was sprinting during a 200 m race when he suddenly developed a severe pain posteriorly in the proximal part of his left thigh.
- On each side of the mid-line are three to four singular imprints, showing a tendency to increase in length posteriorly.

Origin

Early 16th century (as a plural noun denoting descendants): from Latin, comparative of posterus 'following', from post 'after'.

Rhymes

Algeria, anterior, bacteria, Bashkiria, cafeteria, criteria, cryptomeria, diphtheria, exterior, hysteria, Iberia, inferior, interior, Liberia, listeria, Nigeria, Siberia, superior, ulterior, wisteria

Definition of posterior in US English:

posterior

adjective

1Anatomy
Further back in position; of or nearer the rear or hind end, especially of the body or a part of it.
the posterior part of the gut
The opposite of anterior
a basal body situated just posterior to the nucleus
Example sentencesExamples
- The posterior lobe of the pituitary gland or neurohypophysis contains unique glial elements referred to as pituicytes.
- He had macroglossia, and a posterior position of the soft palate.
- When cool, insert a good knife or poultry shears, where the body and the tail are joined and cut towards the posterior, then turn the lobster around and cut toward the anterior.
- Tabes dorsalis involves the dorsal roots and posterior columns of the spinal cord.
- When body fluids become concentrated, more antidiuretic hormone is released from the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland, and acts in the kidneys to promote retention of water.
- There was also a single, small cerebral metastasis in the white matter of the posterior occipital lobe.
Synonyms
rear, hind, back, hinder, rearward
1. 1.1Medicine Relating to or denoting presentation of a fetus in which the rear or caudal end is nearest the cervix and emerges first at birth.
  a posterior labor
  Compare with breech birth
  Example sentencesExamples
  Does the hands-and-knees posture during labour help to rotate the occiput posterior fetus?
  Father is especially proud of mother, who resolved to labor naturally, and did so despite a forty-two hour labor and a posterior baby.
  The midwife visited this morning and the good news is that the head is engaged but the bad news is that the baby is posterior.
2formal Coming after in time or order; later.
a date posterior to the first Reform Bill
Example sentencesExamples
- If our recognition of a Greek idiom in Ecclesiastes is valid, it points to a date posterior to the conquest of Alexander the Great.
- It would be folly, therefore, not to assign the authorship of the "Commentary" to a time posterior to the Early Edition.
- The Japanese data were also recently released by the Ministry of Finance of Japan but are available only for the period posterior to May 1991.
Synonyms
later than, subsequent to, following, succeeding, after

noun

humorous

A person's buttocks.
Example sentencesExamples
- Bureaucrats are not known for their boldness; if something bad happens, they want some sort of shelter for their posteriors.
- In fact, it's fairly easy to tell how much a person exercises just by checking out their posterior.
- But when it comes time to make that decision, almost 40 per cent of us fail to remove our posteriors from the couch and forfeit our voice in the nation's affairs.
- Only once did I have a crash landing and create a hugely attractive mould of my posterior in the sand.
- But if things do fall apart completely, we appear to be fortuitously well prepared for a descent into cannibalism judging by the plethora of plump posteriors wandering the malls.
- As my posterior touches down on porcelain, I let out a sigh of relief.
- My legs carried my plump, childish body to near her face, and I rested my posterior upon the ground.
- He wriggles his posterior, as though testing the chair's rating for comfort.
- People pack the cafes to eat several courses at lunch, yet their posteriors do not require three or four chairs apiece.
- By the time you stand up you feel like you have a basket weave pattern embossed on your posterior.
Synonyms
buttocks, behind, backside, rear, rear end, rump, seat, haunches, hindquarters, cheeks

Origin

Early 16th century (as a plural noun denoting descendants): from Latin, comparative of posterus ‘following’, from post ‘after’.

单词	posterior
释义	Definition of posterior in English: posterior adjective pɒˈstɪərɪə 1Anatomy Further back in position; of or nearer the rear or hind end. the posterior part of the gut The opposite of anterior a basal body situated just posterior to the nucleus Example sentencesExamples When cool, insert a good knife or poultry shears, where the body and the tail are joined and cut towards the posterior, then turn the lobster around and cut toward the anterior. Tabes dorsalis involves the dorsal roots and posterior columns of the spinal cord. There was also a single, small cerebral metastasis in the white matter of the posterior occipital lobe. He had macroglossia, and a posterior position of the soft palate. The posterior lobe of the pituitary gland or neurohypophysis contains unique glial elements referred to as pituicytes. When body fluids become concentrated, more antidiuretic hormone is released from the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland, and acts in the kidneys to promote retention of water. Synonyms rear, hind, back, hinder, rearward technical dorsal, caudal, posticous 1.1Medicine Relating to or denoting presentation of a fetus in which the rear or caudal end is nearest the cervix and emerges first at birth. a posterior labour Example sentencesExamples The midwife visited this morning and the good news is that the head is engaged but the bad news is that the baby is posterior. Father is especially proud of mother, who resolved to labor naturally, and did so despite a forty-two hour labor and a posterior baby. Does the hands-and-knees posture during labour help to rotate the occiput posterior fetus? 2formal Coming after in time or order; later. a date posterior to the first Reform Bill Example sentencesExamples If our recognition of a Greek idiom in Ecclesiastes is valid, it points to a date posterior to the conquest of Alexander the Great. It would be folly, therefore, not to assign the authorship of the "Commentary" to a time posterior to the Early Edition. The Japanese data were also recently released by the Ministry of Finance of Japan but are available only for the period posterior to May 1991. Synonyms later than, subsequent to, following, succeeding, after noun pɒˈstɪərɪə humorous A person's buttocks. Example sentencesExamples But when it comes time to make that decision, almost 40 per cent of us fail to remove our posteriors from the couch and forfeit our voice in the nation's affairs. As my posterior touches down on porcelain, I let out a sigh of relief. My legs carried my plump, childish body to near her face, and I rested my posterior upon the ground. Bureaucrats are not known for their boldness; if something bad happens, they want some sort of shelter for their posteriors. He wriggles his posterior, as though testing the chair's rating for comfort. But if things do fall apart completely, we appear to be fortuitously well prepared for a descent into cannibalism judging by the plethora of plump posteriors wandering the malls. In fact, it's fairly easy to tell how much a person exercises just by checking out their posterior. By the time you stand up you feel like you have a basket weave pattern embossed on your posterior. People pack the cafes to eat several courses at lunch, yet their posteriors do not require three or four chairs apiece. Only once did I have a crash landing and create a hugely attractive mould of my posterior in the sand. Synonyms buttocks, behind, backside, rear, rear end, rump, seat, haunches, hindquarters, cheeks British bottom French derrière German Sitzfleisch informal sit-upon, stern, BTM, tochus, rusty dusty British informal bum, botty, prat, jacksie Scottish informal bahookie North American informal butt, fanny, tush, tushie, tail, duff, buns, booty, caboose, heinie, patootie, keister, tuchis, bazoo, bippy West Indian informal batty, rass British vulgar slang arse, clunge North American vulgar slang ass technical nates humorous fundament archaic breech Derivatives posteriority noun pɒˌstɪərɪˈɒrɪti Anteriority, or posteriority, is a characteristic of the Gothic, in that it gives expression to what Enlightenment culture pushes to the back. Example sentencesExamples He presented evidence for Aristotle's recognition of a type of term between equivocal and univocal terms, some instances of which were characterized by their use according to priority and posteriority. This very loaded broaching, through the use of the word posthumanous, of the thought of an extreme posteriority finds itself sternly warned by Derrida's words, above. Yet his writing is emptily abstract and opaque, e.g. As images of posteriority, ruins reveal the primordiality of the temporal law dial holds sway over their obsolescence. posteriorly adverb In this case, however, it seems to be hard to develop a flat shell form, which rather requires a posteriorly skewed aperture map. Example sentencesExamples Otherwise, the lateral surface is flat and vertical posteriorly. In at least many Chondrichthyes, the hypobranchials are well developed, although they point posteriorly. The amphidetic ligament extends both anteriorly and posteriorly. A 14 year old boy was sprinting during a 200 m race when he suddenly developed a severe pain posteriorly in the proximal part of his left thigh. On each side of the mid-line are three to four singular imprints, showing a tendency to increase in length posteriorly. Origin Early 16th century (as a plural noun denoting descendants): from Latin, comparative of posterus 'following', from post 'after'. Rhymes Algeria, anterior, bacteria, Bashkiria, cafeteria, criteria, cryptomeria, diphtheria, exterior, hysteria, Iberia, inferior, interior, Liberia, listeria, Nigeria, Siberia, superior, ulterior, wisteria Definition of posterior in US English: posterior adjective 1Anatomy Further back in position; of or nearer the rear or hind end, especially of the body or a part of it. the posterior part of the gut The opposite of anterior a basal body situated just posterior to the nucleus Example sentencesExamples The posterior lobe of the pituitary gland or neurohypophysis contains unique glial elements referred to as pituicytes. He had macroglossia, and a posterior position of the soft palate. When cool, insert a good knife or poultry shears, where the body and the tail are joined and cut towards the posterior, then turn the lobster around and cut toward the anterior. Tabes dorsalis involves the dorsal roots and posterior columns of the spinal cord. When body fluids become concentrated, more antidiuretic hormone is released from the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland, and acts in the kidneys to promote retention of water. There was also a single, small cerebral metastasis in the white matter of the posterior occipital lobe. Synonyms rear, hind, back, hinder, rearward 1.1Medicine Relating to or denoting presentation of a fetus in which the rear or caudal end is nearest the cervix and emerges first at birth. a posterior labor Compare with breech birth Example sentencesExamples Does the hands-and-knees posture during labour help to rotate the occiput posterior fetus? Father is especially proud of mother, who resolved to labor naturally, and did so despite a forty-two hour labor and a posterior baby. The midwife visited this morning and the good news is that the head is engaged but the bad news is that the baby is posterior. 2formal Coming after in time or order; later. a date posterior to the first Reform Bill Example sentencesExamples If our recognition of a Greek idiom in Ecclesiastes is valid, it points to a date posterior to the conquest of Alexander the Great. It would be folly, therefore, not to assign the authorship of the "Commentary" to a time posterior to the Early Edition. The Japanese data were also recently released by the Ministry of Finance of Japan but are available only for the period posterior to May 1991. Synonyms later than, subsequent to, following, succeeding, after noun humorous A person's buttocks. Example sentencesExamples Bureaucrats are not known for their boldness; if something bad happens, they want some sort of shelter for their posteriors. In fact, it's fairly easy to tell how much a person exercises just by checking out their posterior. But when it comes time to make that decision, almost 40 per cent of us fail to remove our posteriors from the couch and forfeit our voice in the nation's affairs. Only once did I have a crash landing and create a hugely attractive mould of my posterior in the sand. But if things do fall apart completely, we appear to be fortuitously well prepared for a descent into cannibalism judging by the plethora of plump posteriors wandering the malls. As my posterior touches down on porcelain, I let out a sigh of relief. My legs carried my plump, childish body to near her face, and I rested my posterior upon the ground. He wriggles his posterior, as though testing the chair's rating for comfort. People pack the cafes to eat several courses at lunch, yet their posteriors do not require three or four chairs apiece. By the time you stand up you feel like you have a basket weave pattern embossed on your posterior. Synonyms buttocks, behind, backside, rear, rear end, rump, seat, haunches, hindquarters, cheeks Origin Early 16th century (as a plural noun denoting descendants): from Latin, comparative of posterus ‘following’, from post ‘after’.
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