1. Helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
   "they debated whether nature or rearing was more important";
   - breeding, bringing up, fostering, fosterage, nurture, raising, upbringing
    
2. The properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child
   "The wolves' rearing of the human child was the stuff of legend";
   - raising, nurture

1. Stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds
   "The horse reared in terror";
   - rise up
    
2. Become or appear high or tall
   "The building reared before them";
   - rise, lift
    
3. Cause to rise up
   "The trainer reared the horse on its hind legs";
   - erect
    
4. Look after a child until it is an adult
   "rear a family";
   - raise, bring up, nurture, parent
    
5. Construct, build
   "They reared a magnificent cathedral";
   - raise, erect, set up, put up

Derived forms: rearings

See also: bring

Type of: acculturation, appear, bring up, build, care, construct, elevate, enculturation, get up, give care, lift, look, make, raise, seem, socialisation [Brit], socialization, straighten, upbringing

Antonym: raze

Encyclopedia: Rearing