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Fundament

noun

The fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained. Synonyms: base, basis, cornerstone, foundation, groundwork.

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?"

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

... the chief fundament of kindly virtue, and greatest helper of the first digestion in the stomach, and the liver maketh perfectly the second digestion in the stomach, in the hollowness of its own substance, and departeth clean and pured, from unclean and unpured, and sendeth feeding to all ...

— Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus • Robert Steele

... Life, or the Result of that which hath been evolved out of a Condition. And whether it to be the one way or the other, you to know that where this Force or Spirit be found untainted, there is man; and I to be not opposed to think that Man doth be constant alway in matters of fundament, and neither to have been ever truly different; though something modified in the body and surely, in the first, all undeveloped in the lovely things of the spirit, because that there to be no call to these. Yet, presently, ...

— The Night Land • William Hope Hodgson

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