adj.
- chiefly Anatomy further back in position; of or nearer the rear or hind end. The opposite of anterior.
- Medicine relating to or denoting presentation of a fetus in which the rear or caudal end is nearest the cervix and emerges first at birth.
- formal coming after in time or order; later.
n.
humorous a person's buttocks.
Derivative
- posteriority n.
- posteriorly adv. (Anatomy ).
Etymology
C16 (as pl. n. ‘descendants’): from L., compar. of posterus ‘following’, from post ‘after’.