bottom

Meanings

Noun

• The lowest part of anything.
• Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
• The base; the fundamental part; basic aspect.
• Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
• Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
• The buttocks or anus.
• The lowest part of a container.
• The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.
• 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.
• The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.
• A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
• A man who prefers the receptive role in anal sex with men.
• A bottom quark.
• A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
• Power of endurance.
• Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.

Verb

• To furnish (something) with a bottom.
• 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

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

Related

Similar words

• base
• sit upon, derriere, 🍑
• catcher

Opposite words

• top

Narrower meaning words

• power bottom
• rock bottom

Origin

• From Middle English botme, botom, from Old English botm, bodan, from Proto-Germanic *butmaz, 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 ("bottom of a cup or jar"), Sanskrit बुध्न ("bottom"), Persian بن ("bottom"), Latin fundus ("bottom") (whence fund, via French). The sense “posterior of a person” is from 1794; the “verb to reach the bottom of” is from 1808. bottom dollar is from 1882.