Definitions for basement
ˈbeɪs məntbase·ment

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1. basement, cellarnoun

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

2. basementnoun

   the ground floor facade or interior in Renaissance architecture

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1. basementnoun

   A floor of a building below ground level.

2. basementnoun

   Last place in a sports conference standings.

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1. Basement

   A basement or cellar is one or more floors of a building that are completely or partly below the ground floor. It generally is used as a utility space for a building, where such items as the furnace, water heater, breaker panel or fuse box, car park, and air-conditioning system are located; so also are amenities such as the electrical system and cable television distribution point. 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 usually used for underground floors of, for example, department stores. The word is usually used with houses when the space below the ground floor is habitable, with windows and (usually) its own access. The word cellar applies to the whole underground level or to any large underground room. A subcellar or subbasement is a cellar that lies further underneath.

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1. basement

   A basement is a space or room located below the ground level of a building or house, often used for storage, living space, or various other purposes. It is typically the lowest architectural structure of the building.

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1. Basementadjective

   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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How to pronounce basement?

1. Alex

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Oliver

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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. Frederik Pleitgen:

   People went running to safety, we made our way to the other side of the road to get into cover in a basement there. As I looked back, a second missile struck nearly the same place. Another big blast. We took cover. [We were] in a basement with some residents.

2. William H Gass:

   We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.

3. Leonid Vasilenko:

   The walls were shaking, the window frames were shaking, paint started to crumble off the house, i hid in the basement. What else can you do? I took the dog and the cat. In the basement you could hear the earth tremble.

4. Goldman Sachs:

   The oil market is experiencing a cost re-basement which makes determining when the market is oversold extremely difficult, for the market to be oversold, it requires prices to be far below costs, (which) are falling nearly as fast as the price, which means oil producers can spend less to get the same or potentially even more in terms of production.

5. Chuck Peruto:

   They expired from what he called ‘punishments,’ he expected them to be completely obedient and carry his babies in a basement of a row house where he had no need to hear them scream or complain. He administered these ‘punishments’ through beatings and electric shocks. He would call them weak. But his intention wasn’t to kill them. He wanted to train them to have a perfect race in his basement. He wanted to have babies and raise them with no other contact from the outside world. That’s what he kept repeating during their captivity.

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