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posteriors

posteriors is the plural of posterior.

Meaning of posterior

Noun

posterior (plural posteriors)

  1. (euphemistic, humorous, sometimes) The posterior portions of the human body; especially, the buttocks.
    • Stephen reigned from 1135-1154, that nasty period of our history dubbed 'The Anarchy', when forces loyal to Stephen contested the throne with those of Henry I's daughter Matilda, who by rights should have been queen. Stephen, her cousin, plonked his own posterior on the throne.2023 December 27, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: the way to Weymouth”, in RAIL, number 999, page 52
  2. The probability that a hypothesis is true (calculated by Bayes' theorem).

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Questions about posteriors

What is posteriors the plural of?
Posteriors is the plural of posterior.

Words near posteriors in the dictionary

  1. posteriorizing
  2. posteriorly
  3. posteriormost
  4. posteriorness
  5. posteriorparietal
  6. posteriors
  7. posteriorward
  8. posteriorwards
  9. posteriour
  10. posteriourly
  11. posteriours

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