Synonyms of tails

tails 1 of 2

noun

plural of tail

1

as in entourages

a body of employees or servants who accompany and wait on a person

the tail that accompanies the prince wherever he goes

Synonyms & Similar Words

• entourages
• crews
• posses
• suites
• staffs
• retinues
• trains
• followings
• corteges
• assistants
• helpers
• retainers
• attendants
• courts
• personnels

2

as in cheeks

the part of the body upon which someone sits

get your tail in here

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cheeks
• bums
• seats
• rumps
• bottoms
• buns
• behinds
• butts
• haunches
• backsides
• posteriors
• rears
• buttocks
• fannies
• breeches
• tushes
• cans
• hams
• tail ends
• booties
• rear ends
• cabooses
• heinies
• nates
• beams
• sterns
• fundaments
• derrieres
• hunkers
• keisters
• duffs
• moons

3

as in backs

a behind part or surface

the tail of the ship

Synonyms & Similar Words

• backs
• rears
• reverses

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• faces
• fronts
• foreheads
• foreparts

tails

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of tail

as in chases

to go after or on the track of

detectives tailed the suspect to see where he was going at that time of the evening

Synonyms & Similar Words

• chases
• tracks
• pursues
• dogs
• escorts
• traces
• trails
• shadows
• follows
• tags
• courses
• hounds
• runs after
• accompanies
• eyes
• bird-dogs
• runs
• watches
• hunts
• seeks
• searches (for)
• chaperones
• observes

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• leads
• guides
• pilots
• heads

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of tails

Noun

The video showed many of the dogs standing together on a dusty site, near dry brush, barking and wagging their tails. — Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2026

These predators chase down insects, catch them with their front pinchers, then immobilize the prey with venom from their tails. — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 27 Oct. 2026

But there is also no mistaking the distinct black-and-white fur and bushy tails of skunks. — Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 22 Oct. 2026

Venice, Vienna, London, then years on the Proffers’ couch in Ann Arbor, then New York, a story ending, eventually, with coat tails, in Stockholm, receiving the Nobel Prize. — Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2026

There is nothing truly random about whether a coin comes up heads or tails. — Philipp Strasberg, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

Ingredients like caffeine and L-theanine have long research tails behind them, but the pouch itself as a delivery system has not been studied for the long haul. — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 20 Oct. 2026

Some wagged their tails as people approached, licked their hands and even liked to be petted. — Alida De Flamingh, The Conversation, 19 Oct. 2026

There are cats with monkey tails, and camels that roll up in a ball like armadillos! — Alison Herman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026

Verb

Cuevas remembers the wins, the journey and the spiral — Penix, as a lefty, threw a distinct ball that tails away from pass-catchers. — Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 28 Feb. 2026