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fundament

Syllables: fun·da·ment/ˈfʌn.də.mənt/

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Australia/ˈfan.də.mənt/

fundament noun: foundation.

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
    • ANOTHER defect that new-born infants are liable to is, to have their fundaments closed up; by which they can never evacuate the new excrements engendered by the milk they suck […]1861, Aristotle (pseud.), Aristotle's Works: containing directions for midwives, and counsel and advice to child-bearing women with various useful remedies., page 119
  3. The underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system.

fundament meaning in Urdu

fundament in Urdu

fundament
کون kūn

Examples of fundament in a sentence

  • Bathe the parts frequently with cold water, and, if there be much pain at stool, always squirt up the fundament, beforehand, with a syringe, half a teacupful of cold water.1864, Alfred Fennings, Fennings' everybody's doctor; or, When ill, how to get well, page 9:
  • I flinched when he touched my rosebud, but pretty soon I was fucking his mouth like it was Hector's fundament.2008, Eric Summers, Ride Me Cowboy: Erotic Tales of the West, page 38:

Forms of fundament

pluralfundaments
alternative form (obsolete)foundament

Origin of fundament

From Middle English, from Old French fundement, fondement, from Latin fundāmentum (“foundation”), from fundō (“to lay the bottom, to found”). Doublet of fondamento.

Questions about fundament

What does fundament mean?
Fundament means foundation.
What is fundament in Urdu?
Fundament in Urdu is کون (kūn). See Fundament meaning in Urdu.
How do you use fundament in a sentence?
Bathe the parts frequently with cold water, and, if there be much pain at stool, always squirt up the fundament, beforehand, with a syringe, half a teacupful of cold water.
What part of speech is fundament?
Fundament is a noun.
How do you pronounce fundament?
Fundament is pronounced /ˈfʌn.də.mənt/ (UK).
What is the plural of fundament?
The plural of fundament is fundaments.

Words near fundament in the dictionary

  1. fundaes
  2. fundage
  3. fundagelical
  4. fundagelicals
  5. fundal
  6. fundament
  7. fundamental
  8. fundamental analyses
  9. fundamental analysis
  10. fundamental constant
  11. fundamental constants

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fundament (page history and authors); کون (Urdu) (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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