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n. The solid rock that underlies loose material, such as soil, sand, clay, or gravel.

n. The very basis; the foundation: Ownership of land is the bedrock of democracy.

n. The lowest point: personal finances that were at bedrock.

n. The solid rock that exists at some depth below the ground surface. Bedrock is rock "in place", as opposed to material that has been transported from another location by weathering and erosion.

n. A basis or foundation.

The solid rock underlying superficial formations. Also Fig.

n. In mining, the older crystalline and slaty rocks which underlie the unconsolidated gravelly and volcanic beds of Tertiary and Post-tertiary ages, along the flanks of the Sierra Nevada.

n. Hence That which underlies anything else, as a foundation; bottom layer; lowest stratum.

n. solid unweathered rock lying beneath surface deposits of soil

n. principles from which other truths can be derived

"Because of the recent financial meltdown and the newly straitened circumstances of many Americans, certain bedrock virtues — thrift, faith, community, hard work — are enjoying a renaissance, according to John Gerzema and Michael D 'Antonio in Spend Shift."

stone    rock   

everlasting    empyreal    fact    CCC    unescapable