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semibasements

semibasements is the plural of semibasement.

Meaning of semibasement

Noun

semibasement (plural semibasements)

  1. A basement which is only partially below ground level.
    • In what has become the South Korean director Bong Joon-ho's highest-grossing film, a struggling family of four, the Kims, who live in a semi-basement apartment in a forgotten warren of Seoul, ingratiate themselves through lies, document forgeries, and beguiling charm into service roles at the...2019 December 4, Ian Crouch, “The Best Jokes of 2019”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Apr 2023
    Synonyms:
    half basement, halfbasement, half-basement, partial basement

Questions about semibasements

What is semibasements the plural of?
Semibasements is the plural of semibasement.

Words near semibasements in the dictionary

  1. semibarbarism
  2. semibarbarous
  3. semibaronial
  4. semibarren
  5. semibasement
  6. semibasements
  7. semibearable
  8. semibenevolent
  9. semibent
  10. semibiographical
  11. semibiographically

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