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How to pronounce basement in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms cellar
Type of floor, level, storey, story
Has types cellarage
Type Words
Type of support

Examples of basement

basement
The girl was bound and gagged in Hoffman's basement in rural Mount Vernon, Ohio.
From the abcnews.go.com
Karney says he met with about six residents in his basement on Oct. 8 last year.
From the stltoday.com
Build it in a flood plain and you've got a good chance of having a wet basement.
From the dispatch.com
The Segals'water heater had broken, and water was all over their basement floor.
From the kansas.com
Garbage litters the lower basement area of the old firehouse on Gallatin Avenue.
From the tennessean.com
Understand that you won't get a bargain-basement rate if you've got poor credit.
From the freep.com
The seminary has academic offices and classrooms in the basement of the library.
From the kentucky.com
He also found that a Toshiba laptop, normally kept in the basement, was missing.
From the stltoday.com
The pilgrimage starts with a trek to the basement to pull out our old suitcases.
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More examples
  • The lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage
  • The ground floor facade or interior in Renaissance architecture
  • (based) having a base; "firmly based ice"
  • A basement is one or more floors of a building that are either completely or partially below the ground floor. ...
  • Basement is a 2010 British horror film, starring Danny Dyer and written by Ewen Glass about six friends who are lured into a basement for a sinister experiment.
  • In geology, the terms basement and crystalline basement are used to define the rocks below a sedimentary platform or cover, or more generally any rock below sedimentary rocks or sedimentary basins that are metamorphic or igneous in origin. ...
  • Mecca And The Soul Brother is the critically acclaimed 1992 debut album from the Mount Vernon duo, Pete Rock & CL Smooth. The album contains their best known song, "They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.). ...
  • A floor of a building below ground level; Last place in a sports conference standings
  • (Basements) Another sneaker slang term for takkies or trainers; around Cape Town, South Africa.