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Etymology

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Frombase +‎-ment.

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basement (pluralbasements)

  1. Afloor of a building belowground level.
    • 1914 November,Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider []”, inMunsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.:The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, [], published1915,→OCLC, chapter III (Accessory After the Fact),page382, column 1:
      Turning back, then, toward thebasement 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 of a great and enervating fear.
  2. (geology) Amass ofigneous ormetamorphicrock forming thefoundation over which aplatform ofsedimentary rocks is laid.
  3. (sports, informal) Last place in a sportsconference'sstandings.

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floor below ground level
mass of rock
last place
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