Definitions for basement
ˈbeɪs məntbase·ment

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1. basement, cellar(noun)

   the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage

2. basement(noun)

   the ground floor facade or interior in Renaissance architecture

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1. basement(Noun)

   A floor of a building below ground level.

2. basement(Noun)

   Last place in a sports conference standings.

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1. Basement(adj)

   the outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure. ( See Base, n., 3 (a).) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively

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1. Basement

   A basement or cellar is one or more floors of a building that are either completely or partially below the ground floor. Basements are typically used as a utility space for a building where such items as the boiler, water heater, breaker panel or fuse box, car park, and air-conditioning system are located; so also are amenities such as the electrical distribution system, and cable television distribution point. However in cities with high property prices such as London, basements are often fitted out to a high standard and used as living space. In British English, the word "basement" is used for underground floors of, for example, department stores, but the word is only used with houses when the space below their ground floor is habitable, with windows and its own access. The word cellar or cellars is used to apply to the whole underground level or to any large underground room. A subcellar is a cellar that lies further underneath.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of basement in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of basement in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of basement in a Sentence

1. Tim Cook:

   It has been an economic miracle to allow the person in their basement to start a company, a global company, and serve 175 countries in the world, it is amazing — likely the highest job creator in the last decade.

2. Mika Brzezinski:

   Why don’t you go back, and get your Juicy Juice and go back in your basement and play with your Legos and actually read up on a little history before you start talking about how Mika’s doing this because… she’s defending Al Franken?

3. Ted Zellers:

   Steel workers would come home. They would clean up down in the basement before they came upstairs.

4. Charlotte Bolton:

   This car is deep in my house, my basement is destroyed.

5. Chris Remington:

   Loans have been on bargain basement sale for a significant part of the year, yet still investors have not been drawn in, in fact, they've gone the other way.

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