rere

• (Hiberno-English) IPA^(key): /ɾiːɾ/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

rere (plural reres)

1. Archaic spelling of rear (all meanings).
2. (Ireland, law, specifically) back portion or area behind (a building, etc.)

• 1678 "In the rere of them fall others of the city trumpets; after them two gentlemen bearing the banners of the city and the Lord Mayor; twelve gentlemen ushers appointed as aforesaid follow them, and after them the court of assistants put a period to that division. In the rere of them falls the serjeant trumpet, after him sixteen other of the king's trumpets and kettle-drums; ..." The Triumphs of London (Reprinted 1869 in Some account of the Worshipful company of grocers of the city of London, by John Benjamin Heath)
• 1784 "So out we sallied, the corporal lending his master his arm, and bringing up the rere, to the abby of Saint Grmain [sic]" Tristram Shandy Vol.3, p.44, Lawrence Sterne
• 1855 "It begins by setting out all the tenants' names; the frontage, the depth, and the reres of the several plots." Archdeacon Hewitson's Endowment For A Protestant School At Swords, Endowed Schools, Ireland, Commission, minutes of evidence, Vol. II in Parliamentary papers, Volume 22, Part 3, p.33
• 1922 "He trod the worn steps, pushed the swingdoor and entered softly by the rere." Ulysses, Chapter V James Joyce
• 1986 "the arcade at the rere of the General Post Office" Dublin Metropolitan Streets Commission Act, 1986: First Schedule
• 1995 "the unnamed laneway to the rere of Nos. 1-8 Merview" S.I. No. 248/1995 — Urban Renewal Act, 1986 (Designated Areas) (Cobh) Order, 1995; Schedule, Part II, Harbour Row Area
• 1996 "First Floor/Rere Room: Doors, door cases, chimney piece, decorative plaster ceiling." Written Answers. - Departmental Buildings Dáil Éireann - Volume 463 - 26 March, 1996
• 2009 "permission sought for proposed (1) garage conversion and first floor extension to side, (2) single storey extension to rere, and (3) alterations to front single-storey element and wider vehicular entrance at [address]" Malahide planning notices Fingal Independent, 18 November 2009

• reredos

• reredorter
• rere-supper

• rere at Wordnik

• REER, erer

• rera

Inherited from Latin retrō.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈre.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈre.ɾe]
• Rhymes: -eɾe

rere

1. behind, at the back

   Synonym: darrere

• enrere

rere

1. behind, at the back of
2. after (behind in place)
3. after, by

   any rere any ― year by year

• darrere

• “rere” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “rere”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “rere” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “rere” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

rēre

1. second-person singular present active imperative/indicative of reor

From Old English hrēr, from hrēran (see reren (“to rile”)).

• hrere

• IPA^(key): /ˈreːr(ə)/

rere

2. Referring to eggs: underdone, undercooked; soft-boiled
3. (rare) Referring to sins: unconfessed

• English: rear, rare (of meat)
• ⇒ Yola: raree

• “rẹ̄re, adj.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-11.

From Anglo-Norman rere, from Latin retro.

• reere

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛːr(ə)/

rere

2. (rare outside of compounds) Succeeding, successive, next, following.
3. (rare) Located at the rear, hind, or back.

• rerebrace
• reredos
• rereward

• English: rear
• Scots: rear

• “rēre, adj.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-11.

From Anglo-Norman rier, rere.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛːr(ə)/

rere (hapax, Late Middle English)

1. Not at all, neither in front nor behind;
2. Neither sooner nor later?

• ⇒ Yola: raree (<*rare)

• “rēre, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

rere

1. Alternative form of reren (“to raise”)

rere

1. Alternative form of reren (“to rile”)

rere

1. Alternative form of rare (“thin, airy, rare”)

From Old French rere, from Latin rādere, present active infinitive of rādō.

rere

1. to shave

From Latin retrō.

rere m (oblique and nominative feminine singular rere)

1. late
2. after; later on

rere

1. behind

   Constaunce […] lui vient rere au doos et le trebucha en la mere.

   Constance […] came behind his back and knocked him into the sea

• rereguarde

From Latin rādere.

• raer, raire, reire

rere

1. to shave
   • c. 1155, Wace, Le Roman de Brut:

     Se fist par mi la barbe rere

     He shaved his beard

2. to scrape off, raze
3. to erase

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• res
• raser

• Middle French: rere

rere on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

rere

1. fly