OTHER WORDS FOR bottom
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Idioms about bottom
Origin of bottom
First recorded before 1000; Middle English botme, Old English botm; akin to Old Norse botn, Dutch bodem, German Boden, Latin fundus, Greek pythmḗn, Sanskrit budhná
OTHER WORDS FROM bottom
un·bot·tom, verb (used with object)un·der·bot·tom, nounWords nearby bottom
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British Dictionary definitions for bottom
bottom
/ (ˈbɒtəm) /
noun
adjective (prenominal)
verb
See also bottom out
Word Origin for bottom
Old English botm; related to Old Norse botn, Old High German bodam, Latin fundus, Greek puthmēn
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