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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

... For, "they can't be taking him to any party with them!" he chose to think, and it was a fair calculation that they were simply conducting Braintop part of his way home. The run was pretty swift. Wilfrid's blood was fired by the pace, until, forgetting the traitor Braintop, up rose Truth from the bottom of the well in him, and he felt that his sole desire was to see Emilia once more—but once! that night. Running hard, in the midst of obstacles, and with eye and mind fined on one object, disasters befell him. He knocked apples off a stall, and heard ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... Darkness was thick around me; at one moment I was carried upward until I felt that I should be lost in the black sky, and the next moment the downward motion was so terrible that the blacker water at the bottom of the sea seemed near. I cannot say that I enjoyed it, but I could not give ...

— The Fat of the Land - The Story of an American Farm • John Williams Streeter

... are punished the hypocrites, who go in slow procession clad in cowls of gilded lead. Contrary to the usual practice the poets have in this case to descend to the bottom of the pit, the bridges being all broken away. Malacoda, the leader of the fiends in the last bolgia, had mentioned one, but (falsely) assured them that they would find a sound one further on. He also informed them that ...

— Dante: His Times and His Work • Arthur John Butler

... well executed banknote. "The First Royal Bank of Fitu-Iva will pay to bearer on demand one pound sterling," he read. In the centre was the smudged likeness of a native face. At the bottom was the signature of Tui Tulifau, and the signature of Fulualea, with the printed information appended, "Chancellor of ...

— A Son Of The Sun • Jack London

... 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 ...

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

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