Meanings
plural fundaments · alternative obsolete foundament
- The bottom; the buttocks or anus.
I flinched when he touched my rosebud, but pretty soon I was fucking his mouth like it was Hector's fundament.
2008, Eric Summers, Ride Me Cowboy: Erotic Tales of the West, page 383 more examples
It [the Sphincter Ani] serves to purse up the Fundament, and so hinders the involuntary Evacuation of the Fæces.
1703, Thomas Gibson, The anatomy of humane bodies epitomizedANOTHER defect that new-born infants are liable to is, to have their fundaments closed up; by which they can never evacuate the new excrements engendered by the milk they suck […]
1861, Aristotle (pseud.), Aristotle's Works: containing directions for midwives, and counsel and advice to child-bearing women with various useful remedies., page 119Bathe the parts frequently with cold water, and, if there be much pain at stool, always squirt up the fundament, beforehand, with a syringe, half a teacupful of cold water.
1864, Alfred Fennings, Fennings' everybody's doctor; or, When ill, how to get well, page 9 - The underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
nounthe fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
nounlowest support of a structure
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰewbʰ-?
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰudʰmḗn
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰudʰnós
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰundʰós
- Proto-Italic*fundos
- Latinfundus
- Latinfundō
- Latinfundāmentum
- Old Frenchfondement
- Middle Englishfoundement
- Latinfundāmentuminflu.
- Middle Englishfundament
- Englishfundament
Inherited from Middle English fundament, modification of foundement, from Old French fondement, from Latin fundāmentum (“foundation”), from fundō (“to lay the bottom, to found”). Doublet of fondamento.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 基礎 /基础
- 基礎 /基础 (jīchǔ)underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system
Finnish perusteet
- perusteetunderlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system
Russian фунда́мент
- фунда́мент (fundáment)underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system
Spanish fundamento
- fundamentofoundation
Turkish temel
- temelunderlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system
Cite this entry
fundament. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fundament
“fundament.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fundament. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fundament,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fundament.
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