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Definition bottom

Etymology

From Middle English botme, botom, from Old English botm, bodan (“bottom, foundation; ground, abyss”), from Proto-Germanic *butmaz, *budmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *b?ud?m?n (“bottom”). Cognate with Dutch bodem, German Boden, Icelandic botn, Danish bund; also Irish bonn (“sole (of foot)”), Ancient Greek ?????? (puthm?n, “bottom of a cup or jar”), Sanskrit ????? (budhna, “bottom”), Persian ??‎ (bon, “bottom”), Latin fundus (“bottom”) (whence fund, via French). The sense “posterior of a man” is from 1794; the “verb to reach the bottom of” is from 1808. bottom dollar (“the last dollar one has”) is from 1882.

Noun

bottom (countable and uncountable, plural bottoms)

1. The lowest part of anything.
2. (uncountable, Britain, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
3. (Britain, US) A valley, often used in place names.
4. The buttocks or anus.
5. (nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.
6. (nautical) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
7. (baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.
8. (BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
9. (LGBT, slang) A person with a preference for being penetrated during sexual intercourse.
10. (physics) A bottom quark.
11. (often figuratively) The lowest part of a container.
12. A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
13. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.
14. An abyss.
15. (obsolete) Power of endurance.
16. (obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
17. (usually: bottoms or bottomland) Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.

Verb

bottom (third-person singular simple present bottoms, present participle bottoming, simple past and past participle bottomed)

1. To fall to the lowest point.
2. To establish firmly; to found or justify on or upon something; to set on a firm footing; to set or rest on or upon something which provides support or authority.
3. (intransitive) To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded.
4. (intransitive) To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point of a cog strikes the bottom of a space between two other cogs, or a piston the end of a cylinder.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.
6. (transitive) To furnish with a bottom.
7. (intransitive) To be the submissive in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
8. (intransitive) To be anally penetrated in gay sex.

Adjective

bottom (not comparable)

1. The lowest or last place or position.

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