Meaning

6 senses
  1. The back side of anything, the part opposite its front, particularly

    the side of an object that is opposite its front

  2. The back side of anything, the part opposite its front

    The back side of an estate: the backyard and outbuildings behind a main house, especially (UK dialect, euphemistic) an outhouse.

    The building's backside faced an alley and was covered in grime and graffiti.

  3. (euphemistic)A person's buttocks.

    Having ridden the horse all day for the first time, I had painful blisters on my backside.

    Hintern, Gesäß

    за́дницаzádnica, задzad

  4. (figuratively)The reverse or opposite of anything.

  5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see back, side.

  6. The back side of anything, the part opposite its front

    (obsolete)The back side of a page: a verso.

Examples

15 sentences
  1. Those who are cute have a hateful backside.

  2. If you tumble here, your backside will be squashed.

  3. My backside is becoming flat from sitting for too long.

  4. Tom slipped on the wet grass and fell on his backside.

    deTom rutschte auf dem nassen Gras aus und fiel auf den Hintern. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  5. Spending all day at my computer is making my backside flat.

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
buttocks:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
back side of something:
buttocks:

Origin

From back + side.

From back + side.

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Forms

plural: backsides

Synonyms

30 synonyms
buttocks:rearB2
outhouse:backhouse
verso:verso
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
backside — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto