basement
Syllables: base·ment/ˈbeɪsmənt/
basement noun: a floor of a building below ground level. Also the ellipsis of semi-basement.
Noun
basement (plural basements)
- A floor of a building below ground level.
- 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...1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter III...
- A mass of igneous or metamorphic rock forming the foundation over which a platform of sedimentary rocks is laid.
- Last place in a sports conference's standings.
Also used as
basement is also the ellipsis of semi-basement.
basement meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
basement in Hindi
- floor below ground level
- तलघर talghar
basement in Marathi
- तळघर
basement in Urdu
- floor below ground level
- تَہْ خانَہ tah xāna
basement in Bengali
- বেসমেন্ট
More languagesFewer languages
- basement in Malayalam
- ബേസ്മെൻ്റ്, ബേസ്മെന്റ്
- basement in Kannada
- ನೆಲಮಾಳಿಗೆಯ, ನೆಲಮಾಳಿಗೆಯು
- basement in Punjabi
- ਬੇਸਮੇਂਟ, ਬੇਜ਼ਮੈਂਟ, ਬੇਸਮੈਂਟ
- basement in Gujarati
- ભોંયરું bhõyarũ
- basement in Odia
- ବେସମେଣ୍ଟ, ବେସ୍ମେଣ୍ଟ
- basement in Nepali
- तहखाना, बेसमेन्ट, तहखाने
- basement in Tagalog
- silong
- basement in Arabic
- قَبْوْ qabw, سِرْدَاب sirdāb, بَدْرُوم badrūm, بَدْرُون badrūn
- basement in Malay
- bawah tanah
- basement in Indonesian
- bawah tanah, basemen
- basement in Vietnamese
- tầng hầm
Forms of basement
| plural | basements |
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Origin of basement
From base + -ment.
Words formed from basement
- antiglomerular basement membrane disease
- bargain basement
- bargain-basement
- basement apartment
- basement battler
- basement-dweller
- basement dweller
- basement-dwelling
- basemented
- basementful
- basementless
- basementlike
- basement membrane
- basementward
- English basement
- iceberg basement
- Michigan basement
- nonbasement
- semibasement
- semi-basement
- subbasement
Phrases with basement
Words that rhyme with basement
Questions about basement
- What does basement mean?
- Basement means a floor of a building below ground level.
- What is basement in Hindi?
- Basement in Hindi is तलघर (talghar). See Basement meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is basement?
- Basement is a noun.
- How do you pronounce basement?
- Basement is pronounced /ˈbeɪsmənt/.
- What is the plural of basement?
- The plural of basement is basements.
Words near basement in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: basement (page history and authors); basement (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); basement (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); basement (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); basement (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); basement (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); basement (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); basement (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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