posterior
noun
- anatomical direction about what's behind the subject
adjective
- behind, at the back
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /pɒsˈtɪə.ɹi.ə/ / /poʊˈstɪɹ.i.ɚ/ / /pɑˈstɪɹ.i.ɚ/
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post Latin posterus Latin posteriorbor. English posterior Borrowed from Latin posterior (“that comes or follows after; later, latter”).
- Nearer the rear or hind end; nearer the caudal end of the body in quadrupeds or the dorsal end in bipeds.
- Nearer the rear or hind end; nearer the caudal end of the body in quadrupeds or the dorsal end in bipeds.
- Following in order or in time.
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post Latin posterus Latin posteriorbor. English posterior Borrowed from Latin posterior (“that comes or follows after; later, latter”).
- The posterior portions of the human body; especially, the buttocks.
“Stephen reigned from 1135-1154, that nasty period of our history dubbed 'The Anarchy', when forces loyal to Stephen contested the throne with those of Henry I's daughter Matilda, who by rights should have been queen. Stephen, her cousin, plonked his own posterior on the throne.”
- The probability that a hypothesis is true (calculated by Bayes' theorem).