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postern
  1. A back gate, back door, side entrance, or other gateway distinct from the main entrance.
  2. (archaic) By extension, a separate or hidden way in or out of a place, situation etc.
  3. (historical, military) A subterranean passage communicating between the parade and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the outworks.
  4. Synonyms:
posteriorization
  1. (biology) The acquisition of posterior values, especially the formation of the forebrain, midbrain, hindbrain and spinal cord from the anterior neural plate
posteriority
  1. The condition of being posterior (in any sense)
  2. Examples:
    1. “Anteriority, or posteriority, is a characteristic of the Gothic, in that it gives expression to what Enlightenment culture pushes to the back.”
      “This very loaded broaching, through the use of the word posthumanous, of the thought of an extreme posteriority finds itself sternly warned by Derrida's words, above.”
      “Yet his writing is emptily abstract and opaque, e.g. As images of posteriority, ruins reveal the primordiality of the temporal law dial holds sway over their obsolescence.”
posteriour
  1. Obsolete form of posterior.
posterior
  1. (euphemistic) The buttocks.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Only once did I have a crash landing and create a hugely attractive mould of my posterior in the sand.”
posteriorizations
  1. plural of posteriorization
posteriorities
  1. plural of posteriority
posteriours
  1. plural of posteriour
posteriors
  1. plural of posterior
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “People pack the cafes to eat several courses at lunch, yet their posteriors do not require three or four chairs apiece.”
      “Feeling absolutely shattered we returned to our messy, near empty house lamenting the lack of soft furnishings to comfort our aching posteriors.”
      “The tamarin has neither pouches on the sides of his jaws, nor callosities on his posteriors.”
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