Dictionary Definition
bottom adj
1 situated at the bottom or lowest position; "the
bottom drawer" [syn: bottom(a)] [ant:
side(a),
top(a)]
2 at the bottom; lowest or last; "the bottom
price" [syn: lowest]
3 the lowest rank; "bottom member of the class"
[syn: poorest]
Noun
1 the lower side of anything [syn: underside, undersurface]
2 the lowest part of anything; "they started at
the bottom of the hill"
3 the fleshy part of the human body that you sit
on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on
your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end,
keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end,
rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end,
tooshie, tush, behind, derriere, fanny, ass]
4 the second half of an inning; while the home
team is at bat [syn: bottom
of the inning] [ant: top]
5 a depression forming the ground under a body of
water; "he searched for treasure on the ocean bed" [syn: bed]
6 low-lying alluvial land near a river [syn:
bottomland]
7 a cargo ship; "they did much of their overseas
trade in foreign bottoms" [syn: freighter, merchantman, merchant
ship]
Verb
1 provide with a bottom or a seat; "bottom the
chairs"
2 strike the ground, as with a ship's
bottom
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
Old English botm, bodan "ground, soil, lowest part," from Proto-Germanic *buthm- (cf. Old Frisian boden "soil," German Boden "ground, earth, soil"), from Proto-Indo-European base *bhudh- (cf. Sanskrit budhnah, Greek pythmen "foundation," Latin fundus "bottom, piece of land, farm," Old Irish bond "sole of the foot"). Meaning "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
- The lowest part from the uppermost part, in either of these
senses:
- The part furthest in the direction toward which an unsupported object would fall.
- The part seen, or intended to be seen, nearest the edge of the visual field normally occupied by the lowest visible objects, as "footers appear at the bottoms of pages".
- The buttocks or anus.
- The second half of an inning, the home team's turn to bat.
- A submissive in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
- slang gay sexuality A gay man who likes take a passive sexual role rather than an active role (e.g. to be penetrated in anal sex rather than to penetrate).
- a cargo vessel, a ship.
- certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
Synonyms
Antonyms
- (1), (2), (5): top
Related terms
- bot
- bottom feeder
- bottom line
- bottom-most
- bottom out
- bottoms up
- bottom-up
- rock bottom
- top to bottom
- wind up one's bottoms
- bottomer
Translations
the lowest part
the buttocks or anus
Verb
- To fall to the lowest point.
- John J. Murphy, Intermarket Analysis: Profiting from Global Market Relationships (2004) p. 119:
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- The Dow Jones Industrial Average bottomed on September 24, 2001. The CRB Index bottomed on October 24.
- To be the source of support or authority for something.
- United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, Executive Orders and Presidential Directives, (2001) p.59.
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- Moreover, the Supreme Court has held that the President must obey outstanding executive orders, even when bottomed on the Constitution, until they are revoked.
- To be the submissive in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
Adjective
- The lowest or last place or position.
- ''Those files should go on the bottom shelf.
Extensive Definition
Bottom can refer to:
- Bottom is lowest part of an object.
- the buttocks
- Top and bottom in sex and BDSM
- bottom (BDSM)
- Nick Bottom, a character from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Bottom (TV series), a British sitcom and stage show
- The bottom quark, a subatomic particle
- Bottom element, in lattice theory and related branches of mathematics
- The bottom type, or empty type, in type theory.
- "Bottom", a song by Tool from their 1993 album Undertow
- a cargo vessel, or a ship.
bottom in Dutch: Bottom
bottom in Japanese: ボトム
References
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
argosy,
arse, ass, at bottom, backbone, backside, bark, basal, base, basement, basic, basically, basin, basis, baygall, bed, bedrock, behind, belly, best, boat, bog, bottom glade, bottomland, bottommost, bottoms, breech, bucket, buffalo wallow, bum, butt, buttocks, can, cause, channel, chutzpah, coulee, courage, craft, cut, dale, dell, depths, derriere, dingle, duff, end, essentiality, essentially, establish, everglade, fanny, fen, fenland, floor, foot, footing, found, foundation, foundational, fundament, fundamentally, gameness, gap, gill, giveaway, glade, glen, gluteus maximus, grit, ground, groundwork, grove, guts, gutsiness, guttiness, half-price,
heart, heart of oak,
heinie, hindquarters, hog wallow,
holm, hooker, hulk, hull, in reality, in truth,
intervale, intestinal
fortitude, keel, keister, leviathan, low, lower strata, lowermost, lowest, lowest level, lowest
point, lunar rill, marais, marish, marked down, marrow, marsh, marshland, meadow, mere, mettle, mettlesomeness, mire, moor, moorland, morass, moss, moxie, mud, mud flat, nadir, nerve, nethermost, nub, ocean bottom, origin, packet, pass, peat bog, pith, pluck, pluckiness, posterior, prat, predicate, primary, quagmire, quicksand, quintessence, quintessential, radical, ravine, really, rear, rear end, reduced, rest, rock-bottom, rump, sacrificial, salt marsh,
seat, ship, slashed, slob land, slough, sole, sough, soul, source, spirit, spunk, spunkiness, stamina, stay, stout heart, strath, stuff, substance, substructure, sump, swale, swamp, swampland, taiga, toughness, trench, trough, true grit, truly, tub, tuchis, tush, tushy, underbelly, underlying, underlying level,
undermost, underneath, underpinning, underside, vale, valley, vessel, virtuality, wadi, wallow, wash, watercraft