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En français : fin, arrière, derrière, revers

  1. The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly. (countable, uncountable) · Could you please scratch my back?
  2. The spine and associated tissues. (countable, uncountable) · I hurt my back lifting those crates.
  3. Large and attractive buttocks. (slang, uncountable)
  4. The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) · I still need to finish the back of your dress.
  5. The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back. (countable, uncountable) · Can you fix the back of this chair?
  6. That which is farthest away from the front. (countable, uncountable) · He sat in the back of the room.
  7. The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side. (countable, uncountable) · Turn the book over and look at the back.
  8. The edge of a book which is bound. (countable, uncountable) · The titles are printed on the backs of the books.

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The Scarecrow went sorrowfully back to his friends and told them what Oz had said; and Dorothy was surprised to find that the Great Wizard was not a Head, as she had seen him, but a lovely Lady.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 72 · B2
She left Dorothy alone and went back to the others.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 66 · B2
“Then the murderer, or whoever it was, first took off this ring you call the nugget ring, then the wedding ring, and afterwards put the nugget ring back again.”
The Valley of Fear, p. 32 · C1
“Father,” said Mercédès, stopping when she had reached the centre of the table, “sit, I pray you, on my right hand; on my left I will place him who has ever been as a brother to me,” pointing with a soft and gentle smile to Fernand; but her words and look seemed to inflict the direst torture on him, for his lips became ghastly pale, and even beneath the dark hue of his complexion the blood might be seen retreating as though some sudden pang drove it back to the heart.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 24 · C1

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Mots, sens, prononciations et traductions tirés de Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) ; la fréquence de chaque mot vient de wordfreq. Transformé en ce dictionnaire par FluentPlex.