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Bottom

noun

1.

The lower side of anything. Synonyms: underside, undersurface.

2.

The lowest part of anything.

3.

The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on. Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush. "Are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"

4.

The second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat. Synonym: bottom of the inning.

5.

A depression forming the ground under a body of water. Synonym: bed.

6.

Low-lying alluvial land near a river. Synonym: bottomland.

7.

A cargo ship. Synonyms: freighter, merchant ship, merchantman.

adjective

1.

Situated at the bottom or lowest position.

2.

The lowest rank.

verb

(past & past part. bottomed; pres. part. bottoming)

1.

Provide with a bottom or a seat.

2.

Strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom.

3.

Come to understand. Synonyms: fathom, penetrate.

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"Bottom" Quotes from Famous Books

... connected in one way or other with ancestor-worship, though the people themselves attach a Christian meaning to many of them. He pointed to the following facts as showing that the Serbian Christmas is at bottom a feast of the dead:—(1) It is said on Christmas Eve, "To-night Earth is blended with Paradise" [Raj, the abode of the dead among the heathen Slavs]. (2) There is talk of unchristened folk beneath the threshold wailing ...

— Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan • Clement A. Miles

... the gates: "Three went in, two came out." This inscription was, of course, no longer there. Now only lightly cut-out figures were to be seen, one under the other: '3' on top, '2' lower, and '1' at the bottom. ...

— The Created Legend • Feodor Sologub

... may yet feel; for where is the bottom of the misery of man? But what is success to him that has none to enjoy it? Happiness is not found in self-contemplation; it is perceived only when it is reflected ...

— The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes - Volume IV: The Adventurer; The Idler • Samuel Johnson

... Friday with your brother Marquis; in talking of Lord Fortescue, he said he heard he was a sensible man, and asked me whether he stood on his own bottom, or whether he was a follower of the Grenvilles. I felt the aim of his gracious speech, and consoled myself with his dinner and the addition of a new stock of mimicry of those I already possess of him. He and all his Synod are violent against the new Declaratory Bill, and are ready for any ...

— Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third - From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1 (of 2) • The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos

... dug at a place, as I said, and made such a trench as would hold a dozen fellows: whose remains positively make up the mould. The bones nearly all rotted away, except the teeth which are quite good. At the bottom lay the form of a perfect skeleton: most of the bones gone, but the pressure distinct in the clay: the thigh and leg bones yet extant: the skull a little pushed forward, as if there were scanty room. We also tried some other reputed graves, but found nothing: ...

— Letters of Edward FitzGerald - in two volumes, Vol. 1 • Edward FitzGerald

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