bottom

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The lowest part of anything.
2. (countable, uncountable) The lowest part of anything.
3. (countable, uncountable) The lowest part of anything.
4. (countable, figuratively, often, uncountable) The lowest part of anything.
5. (countable, uncountable) The lowest part of anything.
6. (countable, uncountable) The lowest part of anything.
7. (countable, uncountable) The lowest part of anything.
8. (countable, uncountable) The remotest or innermost part of something.
9. (countable, uncountable) The fundamental part; a basic aspect.
10. (US, countable, uncountable) Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
11. (countable, plural-normally, uncountable) Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
12. (countable, euphemistic, uncountable) The buttocks or anus.
13. (countable, uncountable) The bed of a body of water.
14. (countable, uncountable) An abyss.
15. (countable, uncountable) A cargo vessel, a ship.
16. (countable, uncountable) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
17. (countable) A submissive partner in a sadomasochistic relationship.
18. (broadly, countable) A submissive partner in a sadomasochistic relationship.
19. (countable, slang) A person who has a receptive role or has a preference for that role during intercourse.
20. (British, slang, uncountable) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
21. (dated, uncountable) Power of endurance.
22. (countable, uncountable) A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
23. (countable, rare, uncountable) A trundle or spindle of thread.
24. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
25. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, particle, uncountable) Ellipsis of bottom quark.

Verb

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

Adj

1. (not-comparable) The lowest or last place or position.
2. (not-comparable) Relating to the genitals.

Opposite of

top

Synonyms

base

buttocks

backside

behind

bum

foot

🦶

ground

butt

ass

🍑

rump

foundation

underside

lower part

arse

rear

rear end

bed

🛏️

below

posterior

seat

💺

derriere

buttock

nates

tail

fanny

depth

sole

under

can

buns

stern

root

underneath

lower

hindquarters

basis

tail end

tush

down

keister

tooshie

hind end

prat

fundament

floor

back

🔙

undersurface

end

🔚

last

lowest

Translations

fond

🔙

fondo

derrière

sedere

🪑

Boden

fondo

Grund

bas

trasero

🔙

Hintern

Gesäß

cul

postérieur

bodem

Arsch

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbɒtəm/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: botme

Inherited from Old English: botm

Cognate with Dutch: bodem

Cognate with German: Boden

Cognate with Icelandic: botn

Cognate with Danish: bund

Cognate with Irish: bonn

Cognate with Ancient Greek: πυθμήν

Cognate with Sanskrit: बुध्न

Cognate with Persian: بن

Cognate with Latin: fundus

Cognate with French: -

In summary

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 first attested in 1794; the verb “to reach the bottom of” is first attested in 1808. bottom dollar (“the last dollar one has”) is from 1882.

Sentences

I saw what was at the bottom of all this .

These tokens also have a small character printed on the bottom of the token .