Definition of BOTTOM

bottom

Plural: bottoms

Noun

  • the lower side of anything
  • the lowest part of anything
    • "they started at the bottom of the hill"
  • the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
  • the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat
  • a depression forming the ground under a body of water
  • low-lying alluvial land near a river
  • a cargo ship
    • "they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms"
  • The lowest part of anything.
  • The lowest part of anything.
  • The lowest or last position in a rank.
  • The lowest part of anything.
  • A garment worn to cover the body below the torso.
  • The lowest part of anything.
  • The lowest part of a container.
  • The lowest part of anything.
  • Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water.
  • The lowest part of anything.
  • The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.
  • The lowest part of anything.
  • The bass or baritone instruments of a band.
  • The remotest or innermost part of something.
  • The fundamental part; a basic aspect.
  • Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
  • Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
  • The buttocks or anus.
  • The bed of a body of water.
  • 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.
  • A submissive partner in a sadomasochistic relationship.
  • A submissive partner in a sadomasochistic relationship.
  • A submissive partner in a sexual relationship.
  • A person who has a receptive role or has a preference for that role during intercourse.
  • Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
  • Power of endurance.
  • A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
  • A trundle or spindle of thread.
  • Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
  • Ellipsis of bottom quark.

Verb

Verb Forms: bottomed, bottoming, bottoms

  • To reach the lowest point; to understand completely or fathom.
  • provide with a bottom or a seat
    • "bottom the chairs"
  • strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom
  • come to understand
  • To furnish (something) with a bottom.
  • To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water).
  • To wind (like a ball of thread etc.).
  • To establish or found (something) on or upon.
  • To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath.
  • To be based or grounded.
  • To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action.
  • To reach the bottom of something.
  • To fall to the lowest point.
  • To be the submissive partner in a BDSM relationship.
  • To be anally penetrated in gay sex.

Adjective

  • situated at the bottom or lowest position
    • "the bottom drawer"

Adjective Satellite

  • the lowest rank
    • "bottom member of the class"

Adj

  • The lowest or last place or position.
  • Relating to the genitals.

Examples

  • a soda and a bottom of brandy
  • bottom dysphoria
  • bottom surgery
  • Footers appear at the bottoms of pages.
  • He tried to BOTTOM out the opponent’s strategy, but it remained a mystery.
  • I walked to the bottom of the street.
  • I've never bottomed in my life.
  • James and Lukas would make a great couple if they weren't both bottoms.
  • lack bottom
  • There’s a fairy at the bottom of my garden.
  • There’s a hole in her pyjama bottoms.
  • Those files should go on the bottom shelf.
  • to bottom a chair
  • Where shall we go for a walk? How about Ashcombe Bottom?

Origin / 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 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.

Synonyms

arse, ass, backside, bed, behind, bottom of the inning, bottomland, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fathom, freighter, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, merchant ship, merchantman, nates, penetrate, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, underside, undersurface, 'tocks, arse cheeks, ass cheeks, back, base, batty, blessed assurance, booty, bottom, botty, bum cheeks, butt cheeks, caboose, catcher, cheeks, fourth point of contact, glutes, gluteus maximus, gooseberry-grinder, heinie, hinderlin, hiney, hurdies, jacksie, keester, moneymaker, moon, nether cheeks, pathic, patootie, peach, sit upon, sub, submissive, toches, tushie, zenana

Antonyms

side, top

Scrabble Score: 10

bottom: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
bottom: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bottom: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 12

bottom: valid Words With Friends Word