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Webster 1913 Edition
Basement
Base′ment
(bāsment)
, Noun.
(Arch.)
The outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure. (See , 3
Base
, Noun.
(a)
.) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively. Basement membrane
(Anat.)
, a delicate membrane composed of a single layer of flat cells, forming the substratum upon which, in many organs, the epithelioid cells are disposed.
Webster 1828 Edition
Basement
BA'SEMENT
,Noun.
Definition 2024
basement
basement
English
Noun
basement (plural basements)
- A floor of a building below ground level.
- 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody, chapter III:
- 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.
- 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody, chapter III:
- (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.
Derived terms
Terms derived from basement
Translations
floor below ground level
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