Helen Fenton

Boulevard: Definition and part of speech

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Boulevard

  1. n. A public walk or street occupying the site of demolished fortifications. Hence: A broad avenue in or around a city.
  2. n. Originally, a bulwark or rampart of fortification or fortified town.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bottle-nose: Definition and part of speech

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Bottle-nose

  1. n. The puffin.
  2. n. A cetacean of the Dolphin family, of several species, as Delphinus Tursio and Lagenorhyncus leucopleurus, of Europe.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bottom: Definition and part of speech

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Bottom

  1. a. Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.
  2. n. The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.
  3. n. The part of anything which is beneath the contents and supports them, as the part of a chair on which a person sits, the circular base or lower head of a cask or tub, or the plank floor of a ship’s hold; the under surface.
  4. n. That upon which anything rests or is founded, in a literal or a figurative sense; foundation; groundwork.
  5. n. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, sea.
  6. n. The fundament; the buttocks.
  7. n. An abyss.
  8. n. Low land formed by alluvial deposits along a river; low-lying ground; a dale; a valley.
  9. n. The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, the vessel itself; a ship.
  10. n. Power of endurance; as, a horse of a good bottom.
  11. 1a. 1 Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.