English

Noun

rere ‎(plural reres)

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

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

See also

• reredorter

References

• rere at Wordnik

Anagrams

• REER

Catalan

Etymology

Latin retro.

Adverb

rere

1. behind, at the back

Synonyms

• darrere

Derived terms

• enrere

Preposition

rere

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

   any rere any

   year by year

Synonyms

• darrere

Latin

Verb

rēre

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

Middle French

Etymology

Latin rādō.

Verb

rere

1. to shave

Old French

Etymology 1

Latin retro.

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

Derived terms

• rereguarde

Etymology 2

Latin rādō.

Verb

rere

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

     Se fist par mi la barbe rere

     He shaved his beard

Rapa Nui

Verb

rere

1. fly