bottom
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- The lowest part of anything.
- The lowest part of anything.
- The lowest part of anything.
- The far end of somewhere.
- (slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
- Power of endurance.
- The base; the fundamental part; basic aspect.
- Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
- Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
- The buttocks or anus.
- The lowest part of a container.
- The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.
- An abyss.
- A cargo vessel, a ship.
- Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
- The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.
- A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
- A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
- (slang) A man, trans woman, or other person with a penis, who prefers the receptive role in anal sex.
- Ellipsis of bottom quark.
- A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
- A trundle or spindle of thread.
- (obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
Frequenza
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ˈbɒtəm/
Etimologia
PIE word *bʰudʰmḗn From Middle English botme, botom, from Old English botm, bodan (“bottom, foundation; ground, abyss”), from Proto-West Germanic *butm, from Proto-Germanic *butmaz, *budmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom”). Cognate with Dutch bodem, German Boden, Icelandic botn, Danish bund; also Irish bonn (“sole (of foot)”), Ancient Greek πυθμήν (puthmḗn, “bottom of a cup or jar”), Sanskrit बुध्न (budhna, “bottom”), Persian بن (bon, “bottom”), Latin fundus (“bottom”) (whence fund, via French). The sense “posterior of a person” is from 1794; the verb “to reach the bottom of” is from 1808. bottom dollar (“the last dollar one has”) is from 1882.
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