basement
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈbeɪsmənt/
basement (plural basements)
- A floor of a building below ground level.
- 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter III, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384 ↗:
- Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
(geology) A mass of igneous or metamorphic rock forming the foundation over which a platform of sedimentary rocks is laid. - (sports, informal) Last place in a sports conference standings.
- French: sous-sol, cave
- German: Keller, Untergeschoss, Kellergeschoss
- Italian: scantinato, seminterrato
- Portuguese: porão
- Russian: подва́л
- Spanish: sótano
- French: socle
- German: Grundgebirge
- Italian: basamento
- Portuguese: embasamento
- Spanish: zócalo
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