From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Fundament \Fun"da*ment\, n. [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.
[1913 Webster]
2. The part of the body on which one sits; the buttocks;
specifically (Anat.), the anus. --Hume.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fundament
n 1: the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun
or developed or calculated or explained; "the whole
argument rested on a basis of conjecture" [syn: {basis},
{base}, {foundation}, {fundament}, {groundwork},
{cornerstone}]
2: 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?" [syn: {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}]
3: lowest support of a structure; "it was built on a base of
solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower" [syn:
{foundation}, {base}, {fundament}, {foot}, {groundwork},
{substructure}, {understructure}]
From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]:
Fundament /fundamɛnt/
basement; footing; foundation; grounding; seating
From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]:
fundament /fɵndamɛnt/
element; foundation
From Danish-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 [fd-dan-eng]:
fundament
element; foundation
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