rere

Quotations

• 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

Derived terms

• reredos

Derived terms

• enrere

Synonyms

• darrere

Alternative forms

• hrere

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈreːr(ə)/

Adjective

rere

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

Alternative forms

• reere

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛːr(ə)/

Adjective

rere

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛːr(ə)/

Adverb

rere (hapax legomenon, Late Middle English)

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

Verb

rere

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

Noun

rere

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

Adjective

rere

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

Adjective

rere m (oblique and nominative feminine singular rere)

1. late
2. after; later on

Adverb

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

Alternative forms

• raer, raire, reire

Verb

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