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Fundament

noun
1.
The fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained.  Synonyms: base, basis, cornerstone, foundation, groundwork.
2.
The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.  Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush.  "Are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"
3.
Lowest support of a structure.  Synonyms: base, foot, foundation, groundwork, substructure, understructure.  "He stood at the foot of the tower"





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"Fundament" Quotes from Famous Books



... edifice of our modern civilization upon the fundament of wisdom that had been built at great pains by the people of ...
— Ancient Man - The Beginning of Civilizations • Hendrik Willem Van Loon


Words linked to "Fundament" :   construction, meat and potatoes, supposition, basis, supposal, support, explanation, structure, assumption, bed, body, raft foundation, body part, trunk, torso


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