bottom

== English == === Alternative forms === botton (dialectal) bottome (obsolete) buttom (mispelling) === Etymology === From Middle English botme, botom, from Old English botm, bodan (“bottom, foundation; ground, abyss”), from Proto-West Germanic *butm, from Proto-Germanic *butmaz, *budmaz (“bottom; ground”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn (“bottom”). 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. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbɒ.təm/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɑ.təm/, [ˈbɑɾəm] (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.təm/ Rhymes: -ɒtəm Hyphenation: bot‧tom === Noun === bottom (countable and uncountable, plural bottoms) The lowest part of anything. Hyponym: rock bottom Synonym: base Antonym: top The lowest or last position in a rank. (clothing, often plural) A garment worn to cover the body below the torso. Coordinate term: top (often figuratively) The lowest part of a container. Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water. (baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat. bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, two outs (music) The bass or baritone instruments of a band. (agriculture) The working portion of a moldboard-style plow. single-bottom plow;   three-bottom plow The remotest or innermost part of something. Near-synonym: fundus (anatomical) The fundamental part; a basic aspect. get to the bottom of it (now chiefly US) Low-lying land; a valley or hollow. (usually in the plural) Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil. Synonyms: bottomland, bottomlands, river bottom (bottomland) Coordinate term: river bottom (riverbed) (euphemistic) The buttocks or anus. [1794] Synonyms: see Thesaurus:buttocks The bed of a body of water. Synonym: bed Hyponyms: river bottom, riverbed, streambed, creek bed; seabottom, seabed, oceanbed An abyss. (nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship. (nautical) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater. (countable, slang, especially LGBTQ slang) A person who has a receptive role or has a preference for that role during intercourse. Synonyms: catcher, pathic, (South Asia) zenana Hypernym: doee Hyponym: power bottom Coordinate term: top (countable, colloquial, by extension) A sexual submissive. Synonyms: sub, submissive Coordinate terms: top, dom (uncountable, British, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment. (dated, uncountable) Power of endurance. A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon. (heraldry, rare) A trundle or spindle of thread. (obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment. (particle physics) Ellipsis of bottom quark. Hypernym: flavor ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Dutch: bottom → French: bottom → Portuguese: bottom ==== Translations ==== === Verb === bottom (third-person singular simple present bottoms, present participle bottoming, simple past and past participle bottomed) (transitive) To furnish (something) with a bottom. [from 16th c.] (transitive) To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water). (obsolete) To wind (like a ball of thread etc.). [17th c.] (transitive) To establish or found (something) on or upon. [from 17th c.] 2001, United States Congress House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, Executive Orders and Presidential Directives, p.59: Moreover, the Supreme Court has held that the President must obey outstanding executive orders, even when bottomed on the Constitution, until they are revoked. (transitive, chiefly passive voice) To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath. [from 18th c.] (obsolete, intransitive) To be based or grounded. [17th–19th c.] 'c. 1703, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman Find out upon what foundation any proposition advanced bottoms. (mechanics, intransitive) To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action. [from 19th c.] (transitive) To reach the bottom of something. To fall to the lowest point. [from 19th c.] (BDSM, intransitive, dated) To be the submissive partner in a BDSM relationship. [from 20th c.] (intransitive, especially LGBTQ slang) To take on the receptive role during intercourse. [from 20th c.] ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Adjective === bottom (not comparable) The lowest or last place or position. (transgender) Relating to the genitals. Coordinate term: top ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== bottommost == Dutch == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English bottom. Doublet of bodem. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.təm/ === Noun === bottom m (plural bottoms, diminutive bottommetje n) (LGBTQ and BDSM slang) bottom (passive or submissive role in sexual relations) Coordinate term: top == French == === Etymology === Borrowed from English bottom. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bo.tɔm/ === Adjective === bottom (plural bottoms) (LGBTQ, slang) bottom (passive in role) Synonym: passif == Portuguese == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English bottom. === Adjective === bottom (invariable, not comparable) only used in quark bottom === Noun === bottom m (plural bottoms) bottom quark (quark) === Further reading === “bottom”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 == Yola == === Noun === bottom alternative form of bothom === References === Kathleen A. Browne (1927), “THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD.”, in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of lreland (Sixth Series)‎[3], volume 17, number 2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 135