Bottom

Noun

 * 1) The lowest part from the uppermost part, in either of these senses:
 * 2)  Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
 * 3)  a valley, often used in place names.
 * 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 to bat.
 * 8)  A bottom quark.

Verb

 * 1) To fall to the lowest point.
 * 2) To establish firmly; to found or justify on or upon something; to set on a firm footing; to set or rest on or upon something which provides support or authority.
 * 3) To be the submissive in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.

Adjective

 * 1) The lowest or last place or position.

Adjectives for Bottom
noble; shallow; luxuriant; sandy; sieve; fertile; blind; leaky; rugged.

Verbs for Bottom
anchor to—; drag—; dredge—; flounder on —; gauge to—; list at—; lower to—; plunge to—; probe to—; recede to—; rest on—; sink to—; transfix to—.

Synonyms

 * base
 * arse (British, Australian, NZ), ass, fanny (North American), backside, bot, bott, botty, bum, buttocks

Antonyms

 * top

Related terms

 * bot
 * bottom feeder
 * bottom land
 * bottom line
 * bottom-most
 * bottom out


 * bottoms up
 * bottom-up
 * rock bottom
 * top to bottom
 * wind up one's bottoms
 * bottomer

Thesaurus
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, 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,

Etymology
botm:, bodan:, from (compare  boden:,  Boden:), from  (compare  बुध्न:,  πυθμήν:,  fundus:,  bond:). 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.