bottom
UK /ˈbɒt.əm/ · US /ˈbɑ.təm/ noun, verb, adjective, proper noun
Forms bottoms bottoming bottomed botton bottome buttom
- noun The lowest part of anything. “Footers appear at the bottoms of pages.”
- noun The lowest or last position in a rank. “The Red Sox are at the bottom again.”
- noun (clothing, often plural) A garment worn to cover the body below the torso. “There’s a hole in her pyjama bottoms.”
- noun (often figuratively) The lowest part of a container.
- noun Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water.
- noun (baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat. “bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, two outs”
- noun (music) The bass or baritone instruments of a band. “a soda and a bottom of brandy”
- noun (agriculture) The working portion of a moldboard-style plow. “single-bottom plow”
- verb (transitive) To furnish (something) with a bottom. “to bottom a chair”
- verb (transitive) To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water).
- verb (obsolete) To wind (like a ball of thread etc.).
- verb (transitive) To establish or found (something) on or upon.
- verb (transitive, chiefly passive voice) To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath.
- verb (obsolete, intransitive) To be based or grounded.
- verb (mechanics, intransitive) To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action.
- verb (transitive) To reach the bottom of something.
- adjective The lowest or last place or position. “Those files should go on the bottom shelf.”
- adjective (transgender) Relating to the genitals. “bottom dysphoria”
- proper noun A surname.
Synonyms
base fundus bottomland bottomlands river bottom 'tocks arse arse cheeks ass ass cheeks back backside batty behind blessed assurance booty botty bum bum cheeks buns underside undersurface buttocks nates butt can fundament hindquarters hind end keister
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English botme, botom, from Old English botm, bodan (“bottom, foundation; ground, abyss”), from Proto-West Germanic *butm, from Proto-Germanic *butmaz, *budmaz (“bottom; ground”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom”).
Cognate with Yola bothom, bottom (“bottom”), Saterland Frisian Boudem (“floor; ground”), West Frisian boaiem (“floor; ground”), Dutch bodem, boom, boôm (“bottom; ground, soil”), German Boden (“floor; ground; soil”), Limburgish baom (“bottom; ground, soil”), Luxembourgish Buedem (“bottom; earth, soil”), Vilamovian bödum (“bottom; ground”), Danish bund (“bottom”), Elfdalian buottn (“bottom”), Faroese botnur (“bottom”), Icelandic and Norwegian Nynorsk botn (“bottom”), Norwegian Bokmål botn, bunn (“bottom”), Swedish botten (“bottom”); also Irish and Scottish Gaelic bonn (“base, bottom; sole (of foot)”), Latin fundus (“bottom”) (whence fund, via French), Ancient Greek πυθμήν (puthmḗn, “bottom of a cup or jar; the bottom of the sea; butt of a tree”), Albanian buzë (“rocky chasm”), Armenian անդունդ (andund), անդունդք (andundkʻ, “abyss, chasm”), Northern Kurdish bin (“bottom”), Persian بن (bon, “bottom”), Sanskrit बुध्न (budhna, “bottom”).
The noun sense “posterior of a person” is first attested in 1794; the verb sense “to reach the bottom of” is first attested in 1808. The term bottom dollar (“the last dollar one has”) is first attested in 1882.
* As an English surname, from the noun bottom. Compare Botham.
* As a French name, mistranslated from Lafond, in which Old French la fond (“the fountain”) is confused with modern le fond (“the bottom”).
Webster’s 1913
- noun The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.
- noun The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices. Bottom glade, a low glade or open place; a valley; a dale. Milton. -Bottom grass, grass growing on bottom lands.
- verb To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; --followed by on or upon.
Etymology [OE. botum, botme, AS. botm; akin to OS. bodom, D. bodem, OHG. podam, G. boden, Icel. botn, Sw. botten, Dan. bund (for budn ), L. fundus (for fudnus), Gr.budhna (for bhudhna), and Ir. bonn sole of the foot, W. bon stem, base. Cf. 4th Found, Fund, n.]
Etymology [OE. botme, perh. corrupt. for button. See Button.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “bottom”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details