Back Meaning and Definition

Word: Back

How to pronounce: bæk

Noun

Definitions:

1. The rear surface of the human body from the shoulders to the hips.

Example sentences: "He lay on his back"

2. The side or part of something that is away from the spectator or from the direction in which it moves or faces; the rear.

Example sentences: "At the back of the hotel is a secluded garden"

3. A player in a field game whose initial position is behind the front line.

Example sentences: "Their backs showed some impressive running and passing"

Adverb

Definitions:

1. Toward the rear; in the opposite direction from the one that one is facing or traveling.

Example sentences: "She moved back a pace"

2. Expressing a return to an earlier or normal condition.

Example sentences: "She put the book back on the shelf"

3. In or into the past.

Example sentences: "He made his fortune back in 1955"

4. In return.

Example sentences: "They wrote back to me"

Verb

Definitions:

1. Give financial, material, or moral support to.

Example sentences: "He had a newspaper empire backing him"

2. Walk or drive backward.

Example sentences: "I put the car in reverse and backed down the road"

3. Cover the back of (an object) in order to support, protect, or decorate it.

Example sentences: "A mirror backed with tortoiseshell"

4. Lie behind or at the back of.

Example sentences: "The promenade is backed by lots of cafes"

Adjective

Definitions:

1. Of or at the back of something.

Example sentences: "The back garden"

2. (especially of wages or something published or released) from or relating to the past.

Example sentences: "She was owed back pay"

3. Directed toward the rear or in a reversed course.

4. (of a sound) articulated at the back of the mouth.

Example sentences: "A long back vowel, as in 'dance' or 'bath'"

Synonyms:

return

recover

revert

give back

be back

regain

reverse

dorsum

rearward

tail

rear

behind

come back

fall back

second

back support

backrest

seat back

vice versa

back up

support

shore

prop

advocate

buttress

at the rear

reinforce

assist

spine

vertebral column

backbone

in response

round

Antonyms:

directly

immediately

Derivations:

backside

backing

backboard

backyard

backward

backmost

backed

backless

backwards

Back in Other Languages...

Spanish: Volver

German: Zurück

French: Arrière

Italian: Indietro

Turkish: Geri