FUNDAMENT

foundation, base, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure

(noun) lowest support of a structure; “it was built on a base of solid rock”; “he stood at the foot of the tower”

buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass

(noun) 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?”

basis, base, foundation, fundament, groundwork, cornerstone

(noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained; “the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

fundament (plural fundaments)

Foundation.

The bottom; the buttocks or anus.

The underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system.

Source: Wiktionary


Fun"da*ment, n. Etym: [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.

2. The part of the body on which one sits; the buttocks; specifically (Anat.), the anus. Hume.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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