Basement
['beɪsm(ə)nt] or ['besmənt]
Definition
(noun.) the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage.
(noun.) the ground floor facade or interior in Renaissance architecture.
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Definition
(a.) 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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Ground-floor, lowest story.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are in a basement, foretells that you will see prosperous opportunities abating, and with them, pleasure will dwindle into trouble and care. See Cellar.
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Examples
- The _hypocaust_ was a hot-air furnace built in the basement or cellar of the house and from which the heat was conducted by flues to the bath rooms and other apartments. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Being built on the hillside, its basement opens into the rear yard. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The passage was a long one, and seemed to pervade the whole square basement of the Manor House. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He then led the way inside, and went over the whole building from basement to attic. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The field thus sown on the basement story, I ran lightly upstairs to scatter my mercies next over the drawing-room floor. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The necessary steam boilers were accommodated in the basement, while the second floor was occupied by six generators of 125 horse-power each, nicknamed Jumbos. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In the basement he had an office. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Watson, who was at the basement end of the wire, heard the disc say, Mr. Watson, come here, I want you. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Giving him private directions to seek the society of Mrs. Crupp, and to remove the 'young gal' to the basement also, I abandoned myself to enjoyment. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He set up a line of his own in his father’s basement at Port Huron, making his batteries of bottles, old stovepipe wire, nails and zinc that he could pick up for a trifle. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In the evening I went over to an all-night lunch-house in Printing House Square in a basement--Oliver's. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was long after seven o'clock, and the light and odours proceeding from the basement made it manifest that the boarding-house dinner had begun. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The greatest width is only 30 feet at basement; its greatest height from foundation to summit no less than 260 feet, or 50 feet higher than the summit of the Monument. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- This bucket fits closely in a water-tight upright tube, or stand-pipe, about two feet in diameter, extending from the basement to the upper story. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- We had a telephone line running across the roofs to the basement of the building. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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