Fundament

Definition: Fundament

Fundament

Noun

1. The fundamental assumptions underlying an explanation; "the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture".

2. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.

3. Lowest support of a structure; "it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower".

Date "fundament" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references)

Etymology: Fundament \Fun"da*ment\, noun. [from Old English expression fundament, fundement, fondement, Old French fundement, fondement, French fondement, from the Latin expression fundamentum foundation, from fundare to lay the bottom, to found, from fundus bottom. See Fund.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Building & Civil Engineering	A structure set in the ground provided as the base of a tower and to fix it in the ground. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonyms: Fundament

Synonyms: arse (n), ass (n), backside (n), base (n), basis (n), behind (n), bottom (n), bum (n), buns (n), butt (n), buttocks (n), can (n), cornerstone (n), derriere (n), fanny (n), foot (n), foundation (n), groundwork (n), hind end (n), hindquarters (n), keister (n), nates (n), posterior (n), prat (n), rear (n), rear end (n), rump (n), seat (n), stern (n), substructure (n), tail (n), tail end (n), tooshie (n), tush (n), understructure (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Fundament

Specialty definitions using "fundament": DILBERRIES, DILBERRY MAKER ♦ FEAK, FUN ♦ SPICE ISLANDS. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Fundament" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (base), Danish (element, foundation), Dutch (element, foundation), German (base, element, footing, foundation, grounding, groundwork, seating), Norwegian (foundation), Romanian (base, basis, foundation, ground, groundwork), Swedish (base, bed, footing, foundation, fundation, pediment).

Domain	Title
Books	Das Rechte Fundament der Seefahrt : deutsche Beiträge zur Geschichte der Navigation (reference) Eilhard Mitscherlich, Baumeister am Fundament der Chemie (reference) Gemeindekirche, Ort des Glaubens : die Praxis als Fundament und als Konsequenz der Theologie (reference) Grundwerte als Fundament der pluralistischen Gesellschaft : eine Untersuchung der Positionen von Kirchen, Parteien und Gewerkschaften in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (reference) Lacan - El Seminario 11 Cuatro Conceptos Fundament (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Quotation
Arthur Schopenhauer	The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
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"Fundament" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fundament" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	10	111,207

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Language		Translations for "fundament"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		prapanicë (backside, butt, Fanny, posterior, prat, rear), bythë (arse, ass, backside, buttock, seat). (various references)

Arabic		‏قاعدة مبدأ (maxim, principle, rule), ‏قاعدة (basis, foundation, precept, principle, rule, socle, standard), ‏أساس (armature, base, basis, bottom, crux, footing, foundation, ground, grounding, grounds, pedestal, roadbed, rock, structure, subsoil, substratum, substructure). (various references)

Bulgarian		задница (croup, huckle, posterior, rump). (various references)

Czech		základní element. (various references)

Dutch		fundering (base, base course, fondament, fondement, foundation, fundering, road base, sub-base, subgrade(U.S.A.)), fundament (element, foundation), fondement (fondament, fondement, foundation, fundering), fondament (fondament, fondement, foundation, fundering). (various references)

French		fondement, fondation (fundering), base. (various references)

German		Fundierung (a structure set in the ground provided as the base of a tower and to fix it in the ground, fondament, fondement, foundation, fundering, subgrade(U.S.A.)), Fundation (a structure set in the ground provided as the base of a tower and to fix it in the ground, fondament, fondement, foundation, fundering), Fundament (base, element, footing, foundation, grounding, groundwork, seating), Grundbau (a structure set in the ground provided as the base of a tower and to fix it in the ground, fondament, fondement, foundation, fundering), Gruendung (a structure set in the ground provided as the base of a tower and to fix it in the ground, fondament, fondement, foundation, fundering). (various references)

Hebrew		בסיס (base, basis, foundation, pedestal, plinth). (various references)

Hungarian		alapzat (base, bed, bottom, footing, pedestal, plinth). (various references)

Italian		fondazione (establishment, flotation, foundation, founding), natiche (buttocks, hunkers), deretano (backside, can, posterior, stern). (various references)

Pig Latin		undamentfay

Portuguese		fundamento (base, basement, bedrock, footing, foundation, ground, grounding, groundwork, hornbook, pedestal, warrant, warranty), fundação (establishment, foundation, foundry, institution), traseiro (arse, ass, back, backside, behind, bottom, breech, bum, buttock, hind, hinder, posterior, rear, seat, stern), nádegas (backside, behind, bottom, breech, buttocks, nates, seat), ânus (anus). (various references)

Romanian		şezut (ass, buttocks). (various references)

Russian		зад (arse, ass, back, backside, breech, bum, croupe, duff, end, fanny 2, hams, posterior, prat). (various references)

Scottish		tòn (anus, the fundament). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zadnjica (ass, backside, behind, butt, buttocks, fanny, nates, posterior, rear, rump), temelj (base, basis, bedrock, foundation, substruction). (various references)

Spanish		fundamento (base, basing, basis, bedrock, footing, foundation, ground, groundwork), fundación (endowment, establishment, foundation, foundry, institution, promotion), cimiento (foundation wall), cimentación (a structure set in the ground provided as the base of a tower and to fix it in the ground, cementing, fondament, fondement, foundation, fundering). (various references)

Swedish		bakdel (backside, behind, breech, hindquarter, nates, posterior, rear, rump, seat). (various references)

Turkish		temel (abecederian, back drop, backbone, basal, base, basic, basis, bed, bottom, bread and butter, constitutive, corner stone, elemental, elementary, footing, fortification, foundation, fundamental, grass roots, ground, ground form, groundwork, guiding, hard pan, keystone, parent, pedestal, primary, principal, root, rudimental, rudimentary, socle, staple, substratum, substructure, underlying, working), taban (base, basement, bedrock, floor, girder, sill, sole, substratum, substructure), kaide (base, basis, entablement, matrix, pedestal, precept, principle, socle, sole), kıç (arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, breech, bum, butt, buttocks, can, Fanny, ham, haunches, hindquarters, hip, nates, poop, posterior, rear, rear end, rump, slats, stern, tail, tail end, vent), dip (base, bottom, depth, fag end, far end, foot, ground), anüs (anus). (various references)

Ukrainian		сідниці (buttocks, posterior), зад (arse, ass, behind, breech, buttock, croup, posterior, prat). (various references)

Vietnamese		cơ sở (basal, base, corner-stone, foundation, fundamental, groundwork, underlying). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	anuli, anulis, anulo, anulos, anulum, anulus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "fundament": fundamental, fundamentalism, fundamentalisms, fundamentalist, fundamentalistic, fundamentalists, fundamentally, fundamentals, fundaments. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Fundament" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Finalmente. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "fundament" (pronounced 'Fun"da*ment'): Abandonment, Abasement, Abashment, Abatement, Abetment, Abiliment, Abjurement, Abodement, Abolishment, Aborsement, Abortment, Abridgment, Absentment, Abutment, Acclimatement, Accompaniment, Accomplishment, Accordment, Accouchement, Accouplement, Accroachment, Accrument, Accusement, Acharnement, Acknowledgment, Acquirement, Acquitment, Additament, Adjournment, Adjudgment, Adjument, Adjustment, Admonishment, Adorement, Adornment, Advancement, Advertisement, Advisement, Affamishment, Affeerment, Afforcement, Afforciament, Affordment, Affranchisement, Affrayment, Affreightment, Affrightment, Aggrandizement, Aggroupment, Agistment. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-m-n-n-t-u"
	-2 letters: mundane, unmated, unmeant, unnamed, untamed.
	-3 letters: duenna, fanned, funned, manned, tandem, tanned, tunned, unmade, untame.
	-4 letters: admen, amend, ament, anent, anted, datum, daunt, defat, dunam, famed, fanum, fated, fumed, fumet, maned, mated, maund, meant, menad, menta, muted, named, numen, tamed, tuned, unfed, unman, unmet.
	-5 letters: amen, ante, aunt, daft, dame, damn, date, daut, deaf.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-f-m-n-n-t-u"
	+1 letter: fundaments.
	+2 letters: fundamental.
	+3 letters: fundamentals.
	+4 letters: fundamentally, malfunctioned, untransformed.
	+5 letters: flannelmouthed, fundamentalism, fundamentalist.
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