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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FUND'AMENT, n. [L. fundamentum, from fundo, to set.]
1. The seat; the lower part of the body or of the intestinum rectum.
2. Foundation. [Not in use.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English foundement, from Anglo-French, from Latin fundamentum, from fundare to found, from fundus Date: 13th century 1. an underlying ground, theory, or principle 2. a. buttocks b. anus 3. the part of a land surface that has not been altered by human activities

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. joc. the buttocks. Etymology: ME f. OF fondement f. L fundamentum (as FOUND(2))

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Bottom, seat, buttocks, rump (humorous or contemptuous). 2. Anus, rectal orifice, mouth of the rectum.

Moby Thesaurus

backside, base, basement, basis, beam, bearing wall, bed, bedding, bedrock, behind, belly, bottom, bottom side, breech, buttocks, derriere, downside, floor, flooring, fond, footing, foundation, fundamental, ground, grounds, groundwork, hardpan, lower side, lowest layer, lowest level, nether side, nethermost level, pavement, posterior, principle, radical, rear, riprap, rock bottom, rudiment, rump, seat, sill, solid ground, solid rock, stereobate, stylobate, substratum, substruction, substructure, terra firma, underbelly, underbuilding, undercarriage, undergirding, underlayer, underneath, underpinning, underside, understruction, understructure