bottom

Meaning

Noun

1. The lowest part of anything.
2. The lowest part of anything.
3. The lowest part of anything.
4. The far end of somewhere.
5. (slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
6. Power of endurance.
7. The base; the fundamental part; basic aspect.
8. Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
9. Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
10. The buttocks or anus.
11. The lowest part of a container.
12. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.
13. An abyss.
14. A cargo vessel, a ship.
15. Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
16. The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.
17. A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
18. A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
19. (slang) A man, trans woman, or other person with a penis, who prefers the receptive role in anal sex.
20. Ellipsis of bottom quark.
21. A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
22. A trundle or spindle of thread.
23. (obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.

Verb

1. To furnish (something) with a bottom.
2. To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water).
3. (obsolete) To wind (like a ball of thread etc.).
4. To establish or found (something) on or upon.
5. To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath.
6. (obsolete) To be based or grounded.
7. To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action.
8. To reach the bottom of something.
9. To fall to the lowest point.
10. To be the submissive partner in a BDSM relationship.
11. (slang) To be anally penetrated in gay sex.

Adj

1. The lowest or last place or position.
2. Relating to the genitals.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbɒtəm/

Etymology

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.

Sentences

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