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adverb
1.
In or to or toward a former location.
2.
At or to or toward the back or rear.  Synonyms: backward, backwards, rearward, rearwards.  "Tripped when he stepped backward" , "She looked rearward out the window of the car"
3.
In or to or toward an original condition.
4.
In or to or toward a past time.  Synonym: backward.  "Never look back" , "Lovers of the past looking fondly backward"
5.
In reply.
6.
In repayment or retaliation.  "He hit me and I hit him back" , "I was kept in after school for talking back to the teacher"
noun
1.
The posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine.  Synonym: dorsum.
2.
The side that goes last or is not normally seen.  Synonym: rear.
3.
The part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer.  Synonym: rear.  "It was hidden in the rear of the store"
4.
(football) a person who plays in the backfield.
5.
The series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord.  Synonyms: backbone, rachis, spinal column, spine, vertebral column.
6.
The protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book.  Synonyms: binding, book binding, cover.
7.
The part of a garment that covers the back of your body.
8.
A support that you can lean against while sitting.  Synonym: backrest.
9.
(American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage.
adjective
1.
Related to or located at the back.  "The back entrance"
2.
Located at or near the back of an animal.  Synonyms: hind, hinder.  "The hinder part of a carcass"
3.
Of an earlier date.
verb
(past & past part. backed; pres. part. backing)
1.
Be behind; approve of.  Synonyms: endorse, indorse, plump for, plunk for, support.  "I backed Kennedy in 1960"
2.
Travel backward.  "The car backed up and hit the tree"
3.
Give support or one's approval to.  Synonyms: endorse, indorse, second.  "I can't back this plan" , "Endorse a new project"
4.
Cause to travel backward.
5.
Support financial backing for.
6.
Be in back of.
7.
Place a bet on.  Synonyms: bet on, gage, game, punt, stake.  "I'm betting on the new horse"
8.
Shift to a counterclockwise direction.
9.
Establish as valid or genuine.  Synonym: back up.
10.
Strengthen by providing with a back or backing.



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"Back" Quotes from Famous Books



... Penthievre might not be pleased at her pressing me to leave him in order to join her, she said, 'Well, I will let you off, Princess, on your both promising to dine with me at Trianon; for the King is hunting, not deer, but wood for the poor, and he will see his game off to Paris before he comes back: ...
— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre
... the invisible children had to leap back, or she would have felt them; and to feel what you can't see is the worst sort of ghost-feeling. Mother picked up the Lamb and hurried away ...
— The Phoenix and the Carpet • E. Nesbit
... importance was the contact of the Celtic nation with the Roman people, and with the Germans. We need not here repeat— what has been related already—how the Romans in their slow advance had gradually pressed back the Celts, had at last occupied the belt of coast between the Alps and the Pyrenees, and had thereby totally cut them off from Italy, Spain and the Mediterranean Sea—a catastrophe, for which the way had already been prepared centuries before by the laying out of the Hellenic ...
— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen
... He walked back to the train with a peculiar smile, emotions of pleasurable excitement and a sense of ...
— Prince or Chauffeur? - A Story of Newport • Lawrence Perry
... Going back under the waters, the Nautilus drew near the coast, cruising along it for only a few miles. Through the lounge windows I could see long creepers and gigantic fucus plants, bulb-bearing seaweed of which the open sea at the pole had revealed a few specimens; ...
— 20000 Leagues Under the Seas • Jules Verne


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