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1
being at or in the part of something opposite the front part
- the chapel's posterior location in the church serves to make it a quiet retreat
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2
being, occurring, or carried out at a time after something else
- artifacts dating from a posterior historical period
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nounSynonyms of posterior (Entry 2 of 2)
the part of the body upon which someone sits
- the baseball players were always slapping one another on the posterior
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“Posterior.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/posterior. Accessed 19 Jan. 2022.
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The first known use of posterior was in 1534
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