noun
- The lower side of anything.
- synonyms: underside, undersurface
- The lowest part of anything.
- usage: "they started at the bottom of the hill"
- The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
- usage: "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing"
- The second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat.
- synonyms: bottom of the inning
- A depression forming the ground under a body of water.
- usage: "he searched for treasure on the ocean bed"
- synonyms: bed
- Low-lying alluvial land near a river.
- synonyms: bottomland
- A cargo ship.
- usage: "they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms"
- synonyms: freighter, merchantman, merchant ship
verb
- Provide with a bottom or a seat.
- usage: "bottom the chairs"
- Strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom.
- Come to understand.
adjective
- Situated at the bottom or lowest position.
- usage: "the bottom drawer"
- The lowest rank.
- usage: "bottom member of the class"
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