Fundament meaning

fŭndə-mənt
fundaments
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The natural features of a land surface unaltered by humans.
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A foundation, as of a building.
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An underlying theoretical basis or principle.
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A base or foundation.
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The buttocks.
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The anus.
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Origin of fundament

  • Middle English foundement from Old French fondement from Latin fundāmentum from fundāre to lay the foundation from fundus bottom

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Fundament Sentence Examples

  • His main principles will be found in his Dat Fundament des Christelycken Leers (1 539, 8vo).

  • In order for such higher art to exist it must have a healthy popular fundament to support it, to paraphrase Pound.

  • And whenever things threaten to disappear up their own fundament, director Michael Cabot skilfully nudges humor into the fore.

  • The development of the Kantian standpoint contained in the "New Theory of Human Understanding" (1789), and in the Fundament des philosophischen Wissens (1791), was called by its author Elementarphilosophie.

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