basement

English

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Etymology

base +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeɪsmənt/

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• Rhymes: -eɪsmənt
• Hyphenation: base‧ment

Noun

basement ‎(plural basements)

1. A floor of a building below ground level.
   • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody, chapter III:

     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 of a great and enervating fear.

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

Derived terms

Terms derived from basement

bargain basement basement battler

basementless basementlike

basement membrane subbasement

Translations

floor below ground level

• Albanian: bodrum (sq), qilar (sq) m
• Arabic: قَبُو m ‎(qabū), سِرْدَاب m ‎(sirdāb), بَدْرُوم m ‎(badrūm), بَدْرُون m ‎(badrūn)

  Egyptian Arabic: بدرون m ‎(badrawn)

  Hijazi Arabic: قَبو m ‎(gabu), بدروم m ‎(badrōm)

• Armenian: նկուղ (hy) ‎(nkuł)
• Azeri: zirzəmi
• Bulgarian: сутере́н (bg) m ‎(suterén)
• Catalan: soterrani m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地下室 (zh) ‎(dìxiàshì)

• Czech: suterén m
• Danish: kælder (da)
• Dutch: kelder (nl) m
• Faroese: kjallari m
• Finnish: kellarikerros (fi)
• French: sous-sol (fr) m
• Georgian: სარდაფი ‎(sardapi)
• German: Keller (de) m, Untergeschoss (de) n
• Greek: υπόγειο (el) n ‎(ypógeio)
• Gujarati: ભોંયરું m ‎(bhōnyaruṁ)
• Hebrew: מרתף (he) m ‎(martef)
• Hungarian: alagsor (hu)
• Icelandic: kjallari m
• Ido: basamento (io)
• Indonesian: bawah tanah
• Italian: scantinato (it) m
• Japanese: 地下室 ‎(ちかしつ, chikashitsu)
• Javanese: ngisor
• Korean: 지하실 (ko) ‎(jihasil) (地下室 (ko))

• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: jêrzemîn (ku), bodrûm

  Sorani: ژێرزەوی ‎(zêrzewî)

• Latin: basis (la) m
• Latvian: pagrabs m
• Macedonian: подрум m ‎(podrum), сутерен m ‎(suteren)
• Malay: bawah tanah
• Maltese: kantina m
• Ngazidja Comorian: fidji
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjeller (no) m

  Nynorsk: kjellar m

• Persian: زیرزمین (fa) ‎(zirzamin), سردابه (fa) ‎(sardâbe), سرداب (fa) ‎(sardâb)
• Polish: piwnica (pl) f
• Portuguese: porão (pt) m
• Romanian: subsol (ro) m
• Russian: подва́л (ru) m ‎(podvál) (second basement or below), цо́кольный эта́ж (ru) m ‎(cókolʹnyj etáž) (first basement, lower ground floor, literally "ground floor"), подва́льный эта́ж m ‎(podválʹnyj etáž) (second basement or below)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: подрум m

  Roman: podrum (sh) m

• Slovak: suterén m
• Spanish: sótano (es) m
• Swedish: källare (sv) c
• Tagalog: silong
• Turkish: bodrum (tr)
• Vietnamese: tầng hầm