1. (noun)bottom, underside, undersurface the lowerside of anything
2. (noun)bottom the lowest part of anything "they started at the bottom of the hill"
3. (noun)buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass the fleshy part of the humanbody that you sit on "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"
4. (noun)bottom, bottom of the inning the secondhalf of an inning; while the hometeam is at bat
5. (noun)bed, bottom a depression forming the ground under a body of water "he searched for treasure on the ocean bed"
6. (noun)bottomland, bottom low-lying alluvial land near a river
7. (adj)bottom, freighter, merchantman, merchant ship a cargoship "they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms"
8. (adj)bottom(a) situated at the bottom or lowest position "the bottom drawer"
9. (verb)bottom the lowest rank "bottom member of the class"
10. (verb)bottom provide with a bottom or a seat "bottom the chairs"
11. (verb)bottom strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom
12. (verb)penetrate, fathom, bottom come to understand
1. (noun)bottom ***the bottom ≠ the top the bottom of the ladder; Sign at the bottom of the letter.
2. bottom ≠ the top instructions on the bottom of the box
3. bottom the part of the body you sit on ***She fell on her bottom.
4. bottom at the bottom of sth being the realcause of a problem Greed is at the bottom of most of our problems.
5. bottom get to the bottom of sth to find out the realcause of a problem ***It took years to get to the bottom of what happened.
6. (adjective)bottom ≠ top the bottom shelf/cupboard
7. bottom ≠ top in the bottom half of the rankings
Definition of 'bottom'
Webster Dictionary
1. (adj)bottom of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices
2. (noun)bottom the lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page
3. (noun)bottom the part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circularbase or lowerhead of a cask or tub, or the plankfloor of a ship's hold; the under surface
4. (noun)bottom that upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork
5. (noun)bottom the bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea
16. (verb)bottom to rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; -- usually with on or upon
17. (verb)bottom to reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point of a cog strikes the bottom of a space between two other cogs, or a piston the end of a cylinder
1. bottom a weaver in the interlude in "Midsummer-Night's Dream," whom, with his ass's head, Titania falls in love with under the influence of a love-potion.