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foundament

foundament is the obsolete form of fundament.

Meaning of fundament

Noun

fundament (plural fundaments)

  1. Foundation.
  2. The bottom; the buttocks or anus.
    • It [the Sphincter Ani] serves to purse up the Fundament, and so hinders the involuntary Evacuation of the Fæces.1703, Thomas Gibson, The anatomy of humane bodies epitomized
  3. The underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system.

Forms of foundament

pluralfoundaments

Questions about foundament

What is foundament the obsolete form of?
Foundament is the obsolete form of fundament.

Words near foundament in the dictionary

  1. found-ins
  2. found-on
  3. found-ons
  4. Found.
  5. foundable
  6. foundament
  7. foundaments
  8. foundation
  9. Foundation Day
  10. foundation degree
  11. foundation degrees

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Adapted from Wiktionary: foundament (page history and authors); fundament (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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