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1. Located at or towards the rear of an object
    
2. Coming at a subsequent time or stage
   "the mood posterior to";
   - later, ulterior

1. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
   "he deserves a good kick in the posterior";
   - buttocks, nates, butt, backside, bum, buns [N. Amer], can [N. Amer, informal], fundament, hindquarters, hind end, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush [N. Amer], bottom, behind, derriere, heinie [US], derrière
    
2. A tooth situated at the back of the mouth
   - back tooth
    
3. (statistics) the probability distribution of parameters given observed data, as derived via Bayes' theorem

Derived forms: posteriors

See also: back, caudal, hind, hinder, position, retral, spatial relation, subsequent

Type of: body part, distribution, probability distribution, statistical distribution, tooth

Antonym: anterior

Part of: body, torso, trunk

Encyclopedia: Posterior