| 单词 | basement |
| 释义 | basement (once / 1048 pages) n A basement is a room that's below ground level, underneath the first floor. You might have a laundry room with a washer and dryer in your basement. Some basements are partially under the level of the street, while others are completely below ground. Many, though not all, houses and larger buildings have basements. Some basements are "finished," with carpeting and solid ceilings and walls, but more often they're very basic rooms used for storage. The word dates from 1730, most likely from the Italian basamento, "column base." WORD FAMILYbasement: basements USAGE EXAMPLESThe 25-year-old victim fell through the corrugated plastic ceiling of a kitchen annexe in a basement flat on Charles Road on New Year's Day. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) “We lived in basements and in my mom’s car at one point.” Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Around 1 p.m. he fell again, from the first floor to the basement. Washington Post(Dec 31, 2016) 1n the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage Syn|Hypo|Hyper cellar cellarage a storage area in a cellar floor, level, storey, story a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale 2n the ground floor facade or interior in Renaissance architecture Hyper support supporting structure that holds up or provides a foundation |
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