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bottom rung

bottom rung noun: the lowest step on a ladder.

Noun

bottom rung (plural bottom rungs)

  1. (literal) The lowest step on a ladder.
  2. (figuratively, informal) The lowest level within a hierarchy, series etc..
    • Learning Ukrainian, it turned out, was more than a side-interest, an extracurricular activity. It forced me to look at myself in entirely new ways. In my 50s – treading the pleasant plateau of knowing broadly how to do my job after all these years – it was confronting to be back at the bottom rung...2026 August 4, Charlotte Higgins, “‘The war leaked into every lesson’: learning Ukrainian in a country under siege”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN...

Forms of bottom rung

pluralbottom rungs

Questions about bottom rung

What does bottom rung mean?
Bottom rung means the lowest step on a ladder.
What part of speech is bottom rung?
Bottom rung is a noun.
What is the plural of bottom rung?
The plural of bottom rung is bottom rungs.

Words near bottom rung in the dictionary

  1. bottom pair
  2. bottom pairs
  3. bottom power
  4. bottom quark
  5. bottom quarks
  6. bottom rung
  7. bottom sheet
  8. bottom sheets
  9. bottom surgeon
  10. bottom surgeons
  11. bottom surgeries

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