rudiment   (Sound)

The noun rudiment has 2 senses

• rudiment, first rudiment, first principle, alphabet, ABC, ABC's, ABCs -- (the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural); "he mastered only the rudiments of geometry")


• rudiment -- (the remains of a body part that was functional at an earlier stage of life; "Meckel's diverticulum is the rudiment of the embryonic yolk sac")