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BELOW-GROUND FLOOR OF A BUILDING
Basements; Crossspace; Subcellar; Petit espace; Crawl space vent; Daylight basement; Walkout basement; Subbasement; Sub-basement; Walk-out basement
  • An unfinished basement used for storage and exercise
  • Chillon Castle ([[Château de Chillon]]) basement
  • Measured drawing showing basement plan and structural foundations of the [[Amoureaux House]] in [[Ste. Geneviève, Missouri]]
  • Basement of [[Diocletian's Palace]]
  • Example of the result of houses constructed in the beginning of the 20th century in [[Dawson City]] ([[Yukon Territory]]) without a basement
  • Cellars are often used in [[pubs]] to keep beer barrels connected to the bar at ground level.
  •  Floorplan of [[Church of Tithes]], [[Kyiv]], prior to 1828 rebuild
  • Water can seep into a basement from elevated places nearby, such as a raised driveway. Solutions include re-mortaring bricks, putting silicone in cracks, elevating areas next to exterior walls, and sloping gutters so water flows away from the house.
  • A finished basement
  • Grocery department in basement of T. Eaton's company, [[Calgary, Alberta]], Canada (1929)
  • Old Town]] medieval basements in [[Warsaw]]
  • [[Wine cellar]]
  • A former [[Stasi]] basement hallway

basement         
(basements)
The basement of a building is a floor built partly or completely below ground level.
They bought an old schoolhouse to live in and built a workshop in the basement...
N-COUNT
basement         
¦ noun
1. a room or floor which is partly or entirely below ground level.
2. Geology the oldest formation of rocks underlying a particular area.
Origin
C18: prob. from archaic Du. basement 'foundation', perh. from Ital. basamento 'column base'.
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, ·noun, 3(a)). Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively.

Wikipedia

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.

Pronunciation examples for Basement
1. the basement,
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2. basement workshop.
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3. chairs in our basement.
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4. that's in the basement.
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5. basement a couple times.
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Examples of use of Basement
1. They are in the basement," he said adding "we are facing resistance from the basement.
2. Andrew‘s Church, basement level). Newcomers welcome.
3. Oh my goodness, like serial killers they eat in the basement; I bet even Wayne Rooney doesn‘t eat in the basement.
4. A preliminary investigation showed the basement had one exit to the exterior and that the interior basement stairs had been removed, the fire department said in a statement.
5. "My house doesn‘t have a basement, so I went to my mother‘s and got in her basement," resident Scott Huckriede said.