1. Noun
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.
2. Noun
The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship's hold; the under surface.
3. Noun
That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.
4. Noun
The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.
5. Noun
The fundament; the buttocks.
6. Noun
An abyss.
7. Noun
Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley.
8. Noun
The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship.
9. Noun
Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.
10. Noun
Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
11. Adjective
Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.
12. Verb
To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; -- followed by on or upon.
13. Verb
To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair.
14. Verb
To reach or get to the bottom of.
15. Verb
To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded; -- usually with on or upon.
16. Verb
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.
17. Noun
A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
18. Verb
To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread.
19. Noun
a depression forming the ground under a body of water; "he searched for treasure on the ocean bed"
Vocabulary classified under Nature and environment
20. Noun
low-lying alluvial land near a river
Vocabulary classified under Environmental science
21. Noun
the lowest part of anything; "they started at the bottom of the hill"
Vocabulary classified under Geography
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