Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The buttocks.
- n. The anus.
- n. The natural features of a land surface unaltered by humans.
- n. A foundation, as of a building.
- n. An underlying theoretical basis or principle: "All neighbor states ... must revise ... their policy fundaments” ( C.L. Sulzberger).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Foundation; foundment.
- n. The anus; the vent; the perineal region.
Wiktionary
- n. Foundation.
- n. The bottom; the buttocks or anus.
- n. The underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete Foundation.
- n. The part of the body on which one sits; the buttocks; specifically (Anat.), the anus.
WordNet 3.0
- n. lowest support of a structure
- n. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- n. the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old French fundement, fondement, from Latin fundamentum ("foundation"), from fundō ("I lay the bottom, I found"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English foundement, from Old French fondement, from Latin fundāmentum, from fundāre, to lay the foundation, from fundus, bottom. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“If they are actually altering the reading based on some "factor" they pulled out of their fundament, that is another problem.”
“God only knows what a "fundament" is, but apparently it does a lot of different things.”
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“There's some heavyhanded sexual humor as well, including a missionary whose naked "fundament" suffers the indignity of a tattoo and a young lady who falls into Macklyn's lap much to his obvious pleasure.”
“I had to break it to him that "fundament" was a word meaning ... "anus.”
“From an etymological point of view, perdikis is an appropriate word for "fundament," as it is cognate with verbs for breaking wind.”
“Is it just me, or wouldn't you take 'fundament' to mean bumhole, rather than - ahem - appendage?”
“fundament" to describe some central doctrine he was invoking.”
“fundament'; with the expulsion of Abidal, Chelsea's lack of attacking while 11 on 10 and the German ref in the first leg I don't feel the least bit guilty about winning that one.”
“VanderMeer is writing a crime noir, and the solving of the mystery is at the fundament of the plotline.”
“Sometimes voting with your feet includes applying a foot to the fundament of a pietistic lawbreaker.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fundament’.
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buttocks
words for buttocks and anything
to do with buttockssteatopygia, callipygous, callipygian, tuchis, tot, stern, seat, rear, rump, keisterrump, fundament, fanny and 160 more...
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POL - campaign tokenisms
Positive words and vague promises. THE words and expressions to use when you want to win over the masses or just don't know what to say.
"CAPITAL" stands for the administrative capital...deserve, deserve better, destiny, determination, determine, determine the wil..., dialogue, differentiation, difficult question, disappointments, diverse, diversity and 751 more...
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-ments aplenty
The stranger, the better.
battlement, devilment, ailment, dismemberment, embezzlement, blandishment, entanglement, engorgement, embankment, elopement, disgruntlement, hutment and 77 more...
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just neat
insolent, redolent, clammy, chunder, berate, vainqueur, neotony, milquetoast, semprini, twaddle, plethora, enteron and 29 more...
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fun
Funafuti, Funchal, fung-hwang, fundic, fungic, funge, fungo, funfair, functor, fungian, fungiform, fungibility and 58 more...
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marginalia
exuberance, potsherds, earthbound, marcher, märchen, pastiche, transliterated, crocodile, oxbridge, jejune, publican, antithesis and 143 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Grounded Words
an Eckhartian exercise of grinding
grind, grist, refrain, ground, grit, mitochondrion, groats, grout, gruel, great, gruesome, gravel and 162 more...
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Lolita
Words to remember from Nabokov's "Lolita"
lurid, limned, concordance, puerility, variorum, perspicacious, exigency, acrostic, solipsism, mnemosyne, involution, fatidic and 227 more...
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fearraigh's Words
heretofore, seldom, cunt, calamity, overhead, phalanx, flunky, factotum, terrestrial, dormant, afflatus, periphery and 156 more...
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Chad-)'s Words
hubris, curmudgeon, vilipend, fundament, tinny, sleeping policeman, orthoepist, grubstake, logorrhea, unprotected sleep, gander, yellow journalism and 18 more...
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Nashisms
Snips and snippets of Nash found here and there...
mouseholed, winda, pyrate, realio, jangling squirm, lllama, pyjama, trulio, flickering indeci..., ilk, narra, prepoceros and 18 more...
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jessicaangeline's Words
tart, ubiquitous, rakish, specious, onus, trollop, strumpet, gourmand, podunk, nitwit, splendiferous, schlep and 13 more...
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meow's Words
omaha, iphigenia, easter, fundament, meow, persephone, lemon, robot, infrastructure
Tweets
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madmouth May he who steals you then be sent
A blow upon his fundament
A warning for bookthieves, 13th c., source unknown Apr 13, 2009
reesetee *loves Ogden Nash* Aug 10, 2008
shevek I test my bath before I sit
And am always moved to wonderment
That what chills the finger not a bit
Is so frigid upon the fundament. Aug 10, 2008