Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The buttocks.
- noun The anus.
- noun The natural features of a land surface unaltered by humans.
- noun A foundation, as of a building.
- noun An underlying theoretical basis or principle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Foundation; foundment.
- noun The anus; the vent; the perineal region.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Foundation.
- noun The part of the body on which one sits; the buttocks; specifically (Anat.), the anus.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Foundation . - noun The
bottom ; thebuttocks oranus . - noun The underlying
basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun lowest support of a structure
- noun the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- noun the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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If they are actually altering the reading based on some "factor" they pulled out of their fundament, that is another problem.
Ace of Spades HQ 2009
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God only knows what a "fundament" is, but apparently it does a lot of different things.
Ken Adelman: Bard Blog: 'Women of Will,' Shakespeare and George Steinbrenner 2010
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God only knows what a "fundament" is, but apparently it does a lot of different things.
Ken Adelman: Bard Blog: 'Women of Will,' Shakespeare and George Steinbrenner 2010
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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.
The Biblicals 2007
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I had to break it to him that "fundament" was a word meaning ... "anus."
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Is it just me, or wouldn't you take 'fundament' to mean bumhole, rather than - ahem - appendage?
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From an etymological point of view, perdikis is an appropriate word for "fundament," as it is cognate with verbs for breaking wind.
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Is it just me, or wouldn't you take 'fundament' to mean bumhole, rather than - ahem - appendage?
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"fundament" to describe some central doctrine he was invoking.
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'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.
shevek commented on the word fundament
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.
August 10, 2008
reesetee commented on the word fundament
*loves Ogden Nash*
August 11, 2008
madmouth commented on the word fundament
May he who steals you then be sent
A blow upon his fundament
A warning for bookthieves, 13th c., source unknown
April 13, 2009