Meaning of bottom in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• The lowest part of anything.

  Example: Footers appear at the bottoms of pages.

• Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.

  Example: lack bottom

• Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.

  Example: Where shall we go for a walk? How about Ashcombe Bottom?

• The buttocks or anus.

• A cargo vessel, a ship.

• Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.

• The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.

• (BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.

• A person with a preference for being penetrated during sexual intercourse.

• A bottom quark.

• The lowest part of a container.

• A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.

• The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.

• An abyss.

• Power of endurance.

  Example: a horse of a good bottom

• Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.

• (usually: bottoms or bottomland) Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.

verb

• To furnish (something) with a bottom.

  Example: to bottom a chair

• To wind (like a ball of thread etc.).

• To establish or found (something) on or upon.

• (chiefly in passive) To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath.

• To be based or grounded.

• To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action.

• To reach the bottom of something.

• To fall to the lowest point.

• 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.

  Example: I've never bottomed in my life.

adjective

• The lowest or last place or position.

  Example: Those files should go on the bottom shelf.