Word Meanings - POSTERIOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

At or toward the caudal extremity; caudal; -- in human anatomy often used for dorsal. (more info) 1. Later in time; hence, later in the order of proceeding or moving; coming after; -- opposed to prior. Hesiod was posterior to Homer. Broome. 2.

Additional info about word: POSTERIOR

At or toward the caudal extremity; caudal; -- in human anatomy often used for dorsal. (more info) 1. Later in time; hence, later in the order of proceeding or moving; coming after; -- opposed to prior. Hesiod was posterior to Homer. Broome. 2. Situated behind; hinder; -- opposed to anterior.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of POSTERIOR)

• Subsequent
• Posterior
• later
• succeeding
• following
• after

Related words: (words related to POSTERIOR)

• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• SUCCEEDANT
  Succeeding one another; following.
• AFTER
  To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts
• LATERAN
  The church and palace of St. John Lateran, the church being the cathedral church of Rome, and the highest in rank of all churches in the Catholic world. Note: The name is said to have been derived from that of the Laterani family, who possessed
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• FOLLOWING EDGE
  See ABOVE
• LATERAL
  Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. 3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. Lateral cleavage , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation
• LATERALLY
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• SUCCEEDER
  A successor. Shak. Tennyson.
• AFTERSHAFT
  The hypoptilum.
• LATER
  A brick or tile. Knight.
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• SUBSEQUENT
  1. Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely; as, subsequent events; subsequent ages or years; a period long subsequent to the foundation of Rome. 2. Following in order of place; succeeding; as, a subsequent
• AFTER DAMP
  An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.
• AFTER-NOTE
  One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note.
• LATERIFOLIOUS
  Growing from the stem by the side of a leaf; as, a laterifolious flower.
• AFTERWISE
  Wise after the event; wise or knowing, when it is too late.
• POSTERIORLY
  Subsequently in time; also, behind in position.
• AFTERINGS
  The last milk drawn in milking; strokings. Grose.
• SUCCEEDING
  The act of one who, or that which, succeeds; also, that which succeeds, or follows after; consequence. Shak.
• SLATER
  One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
• INFLATER
  One who, or that which, inflates; as, the inflaters of the stock exchange.
• CRAFTER
  a creator of great skill in the manual arts. Syn. -- craftsman.
• THEREAFTER
  1. After that; afterward. 2. According to that; accordingly. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison,