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Rear may refer to:
Animals edit
- Rear (horse), when a horse lifts its front legs off the ground
- In stockbreeding, to breed and raise
Humans edit
- Parenting (child rearing), the process of promoting and supporting a child from infancy to adulthood
- Gender of rearing, the gender in which parents rear a child
Military edit
- Rear (military), the area of a battlefield behind the front line
- Rear admiral, a naval officer