- [only before noun] in the lowest, last or furthest place or position
- your bottom lip
- the bottom line/row/edge
- on the bottom left/right of the page
- in the bottom corner of the screen
- on the bottom shelf
- Their house is at the bottom end of Bury Road (= the end furthest from where you enter the road).
- Put your clothes in the bottom drawer.
- to go up a hill in bottom gear
- She was sitting on the bottom step.
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- the lowest or last position in a scale or competition
- the bottom end of the price range
- We came bottom with 12 points.
- We finished bottom of the league.
- They finished six points ahead of bottom club Swindon.
- a cut in the bottom income-tax bracket from 15% to 10%
Word OriginOld English botm, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bodem ‘bottom, ground’ and German Boden ‘ground, earth’.
Idioms
See bottom in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee bottom in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishyou can bet your life/your bottom dollar (on something/(that)…)
- (informal) used to say that you are certain that something will happen
- You can bet your bottom dollar that he'll be late.
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