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noun
1.
a story of a building, partly or wholly underground.
2.
(in classical and Renaissance architecture) the portion of a building beneath the principal story, treated as a single compositional unit.
3.
the lowermost portion of a structure.
4.
the substructure of a columnar or arched construction.
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| basement (ˈbeɪsmənt) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a. Compare cellar a partly or wholly underground storey of a building, esp the one immediately below the main floor |
| b. (as modifier): a basement flat | |
| 2. | the foundation or substructure of a wall or building |
| 3. | geology a part of the earth's crust formed of hard igneous or metamorphic rock that lies beneath the cover of soft sedimentary rock, sediment, and soil |
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