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basements

/beɪsmənts/

basements is the plural of basement.

Meaning of basement

Noun

basement (plural basements)

  1. 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...
  2. A mass of igneous or metamorphic rock forming the foundation over which a platform of sedimentary rocks is laid.
  3. (informal) Last place in a sports conference's standings.

Phrases with basements

Questions about basements

What is basements the plural of?
Basements is the plural of basement.
How do you pronounce basements?
Basements is pronounced /beɪsmənts/.

Words near basements in the dictionary

  1. basementfuls
  2. basementier
  3. basementiest
  4. basementless
  5. basementlike
  6. basements
  7. basementsful
  8. basementward
  9. basementwards
  10. basementy
  11. basen

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