Fundament \Fun"da*ment\, n. [OE. fundament, fundement,
fondement, OF. fundement, fondement, F. fondement, fr. L.
fundamentum foundation, fr. fundare to lay the bottom, to
found, fr. fundus bottom. See Fund.]
1. Foundation. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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2. The part of the body on which one sits; the buttocks;
specifically (Anat.), the anus. --Hume.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
fundament
n 1: the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or
developed or calculated or explained; "the whole
argument rested on a basis of conjecture" [syn: basis,
base, foundation, groundwork, cornerstone]
2: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he
deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit
on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates,
arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, hindquarters,
hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear
end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie,
tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass]
3: lowest support of a structure; "it was built on a base of
solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower" [syn: foundation,
base, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure]
WordNet (r) 2.0
61 Moby Thesaurus words for "fundament":
backside, base, basement, basis, beam, bearing wall, bed, bedding,
bedrock, behind, belly, bottom, bottom side, breech, buttocks,
derriere, downside, floor, flooring, fond, footing, foundation,
fundamental, ground, grounds, groundwork, hardpan, lower side,
lowest layer, lowest level, nether side, nethermost level,
pavement, posterior, principle, radical, rear, riprap, rock bottom,
rudiment, rump, seat, sill, solid ground, solid rock, stereobate,
stylobate, substratum, substruction, substructure, terra firma,
underbelly, underbuilding, undercarriage, undergirding, underlayer,
underneath, underpinning, underside, understruction,
understructure
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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