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Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of bottom with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emergefrom nothing, from the bottom up, without a plan,
Definition summary: The lowest part of anything.

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How to pronounce bottom

The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge

from nothing, from the bottom up, without a plan,

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Meaning

[Noun]
The lowest part of anything.
The remotest or innermost part of something.
The fundamental part; a basic aspect.
(now chiefly US) Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
(usually in the plural) Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
(euphemistic) The buttocks or anus. [1794]
The bed of a body of water.
An abyss.
(nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.
(nautical) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
(countable, slang, especially LGBTQ slang) A person who has a receptive role or has a preference for that role during intercourse.
(uncountable, British, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
(dated, uncountable) Power of endurance.
A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
(heraldry, rare) A trundle or spindle of thread.
(obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
(particle physics) Ellipsis of bottom quark.
[Verb]
(transitive) To furnish (something) with a bottom. [from 16th c.]
(transitive) To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water).
(obsolete) To wind (like a ball of thread etc.). [17th c.]
(transitive) To establish or found (something) on or upon. [from 17th c.]
(transitive, chiefly passive voice) To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath. [from 18th c.]
(obsolete, intransitive) To be based or grounded. [17th–19th c.]
(mechanics, intransitive) To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action. [from 19th c.]
(transitive) To reach the bottom of something.
To fall to the lowest point. [from 19th c.]
(BDSM, intransitive, dated) To be the submissive partner in a BDSM relationship. [from 20th c.]
(intransitive, especially LGBTQ slang) To take on the receptive role during intercourse. [from 20th c.]
[Adjective]
The lowest or last place or position.
(transgender) Relating to the genitals.

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How to pronounce “bottom”

Pronunciation guide for bottom

How to pronounce bottom

Example Sentences

from nothing, from the bottom up, without a plan,

Down in the bottom part of the screen

a FOPSE, or a double bottom line business.

Well, the thesis of "The Bottom Billion"

attachment so the bottom line is sex is

Now we all know people who've made it from the bottom to the top, middle to the top.

But the bottom line is that at these low latitudes

You have to think about your bottom line.

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