basement

Speech parts

1. basement - Noun

2. basement - Adjective

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

cellar undercroft lower level subbasement lower floor underground room garret foundation lower ground base basis hold sole storey
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Antonyms

acme garret grand apogee dome chamber
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Hypernyms

support level storey floor story

Hyponyms

cellarage

Phrases with the word

anti-glomerular basement membrane disease sub-basement basement level his basement in a basement your basement

Examples

Last year, I made a refrigerator in my basement. And I needed to because I needed to figure how - you know there is no such thing as "cold." There is only less heat. Alton Brown

There is no victory at bargain basement prices. Dwight D. Eisenhower

The two of us had come a long way together from our humble beginnings and the basement apartment that had been our first home as newlyweds in 1957, when I was still a law student at Laval University in Quebec City. Jean Chrétien

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets. Francis Ford Coppola

I've been in the bargain basement of the movie business. Linda Fiorentino

We had a lion that was living in somebody's basement outside of Branson, Missouri. Tippi Hedren

Close letter words and terms

baseman basemap basemean basement apartment basement battler basement dweller