Word.ws English Dictionary

rear-view mirrors

rear-view mirrors is the plural of rear-view mirror.

Meaning of rear-view mirror

Noun

rear-view mirror (plural rear-view mirrors)

  1. A mirror inside a vehicle that allows the driver to see the traffic behind.
  2. (broadly, figuratively) The observer's perception of something that is past or has been surpassed.
    • Guilt is a powerful emotion in the moment, but it's easy to ignore once it's in the rear-view mirror.

Questions about rear-view mirrors

What is rear-view mirrors the plural of?
Rear-view mirrors is the plural of rear-view mirror.

Words near rear-view mirrors in the dictionary

  1. rear-guard
  2. rear-horse
  3. rear-horses
  4. rear-view
  5. rear-view mirror
  6. rear-view mirrors
  7. rear-views
  8. rear-vision mirror
  9. rear-wheel drive
  10. rearbitrate
  11. rearbitrated

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rear-view mirrors (page history and authors); rear-view mirror (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “rear-view mirrors.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/rear-view_mirrors. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.