bottom
pronunciation
How to pronounce bottom in British English:
UK [ˈbɒtəm]
How to pronounce bottom in American English:
US [ˈbɑːtəm]
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- Noun:
- the lower side of anything
- the lowest part of anything
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat
- a depression forming the ground under a body of water
- low-lying alluvial land near a river
- a cargo ship
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- Verb:
- provide with a bottom or a seat
- strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom
- come to understand
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- Adjective:
- situated at the bottom or lowest position
- at the bottom; lowest or last
- the lowest rank
Word Origin
- bottom
- bottom: [OE] Bottom is a word with cognates widely represented in other Indo-European languages. It comes ultimately from the Indo- European base *bhudh- or *bhundh- ‘base, foundation’, source of Latin fundus, from which English gets fund, fundamental, foundation, and founder ‘sink’. An extended form of the base passed into Germanic as *buthm- or *buthn-, which produced German boden ‘ground, earth’ and English bottom. The application of the word to the ‘buttocks’ seems to have arisen towards the end of the 18th century.=> foundation, fund, fundamental
- bottom (n.)
- Old English botm, bodan "ground, soil, foundation, lowest part," from Proto-Germanic *buthm- (cognates: Old Frisian boden "soil," Old Norse botn, Dutch bodem, Old High German bodam, German Boden "ground, earth, soil"), from PIE root *bhu(n)d(h)- (cognates: Sanskrit budhnah, Avestan buna- "bottom," Greek pythmen "foundation," Latin fundus "bottom, piece of land, farm," Old Irish bond "sole of the foot"). Meaning "posterior of a person" is from 1794. Bottom dollar "the last dollar one has" is from 1882. Bottom-feeder, originally of fishes, is from 1866.
- bottom (v.)
- 1540s, "to put a bottom on," from bottom (n.). Meaning "to reach the bottom of" is from 1808 (earlier figuratively, 1785). Related: Bottomed; bottoming.
Synonym
Example
- 1. But sales didn 't stay at rock bottom for long .
- 2. Gifs are a part of it , especially if they 're not all about the text at the bottom .
- 3. But it looks hard to call a bottom .
- 4. At the bottom is indonesia 's burgeoning microfinance market .
- 5. Just before they break , I dive to the bottom .