bottom
Word Statistics
Standard vocabulary
Used frequently in everyday conversation
Moderate complexity
Analysis:
- • Common vocabulary word
- • Simple pronunciation
1. The lowest part of anything.
"Footers appear at the bottoms of pages."
2. Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
"lack bottom"
3. Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
"Where shall we go for a walk? How about Ashcombe Bottom?"
4. The buttocks or anus.
5. A cargo vessel, a ship.
6. Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
7. The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.
8. (BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
9. A person with a preference for being penetrated during sexual intercourse.
10. A bottom quark.
11. The lowest part of a container.
12. A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
13. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.
14. An abyss.
15. Power of endurance.
"a horse of a good bottom"
16. Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
17. (usually: bottoms or bottomland) Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
Synonyms
1. To furnish (something) with a bottom.
"to bottom a chair"
2. To wind (like a ball of thread etc.).
3. To establish or found (something) on or upon.
4. (chiefly in passive) To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath.
5. To be based or grounded.
6. To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action.
7. To reach the bottom of something.
8. To fall to the lowest point.
9. To be the more passive or receiving partner in a sexual act or relationship; to be submissive in a BDSM relationship; to be anally penetrated in gay sex.
"I've never bottomed in my life."
1. The lowest or last place or position.
"Those files should go on the bottom shelf."
Source: en.wiktionary.org
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