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basement

noun
 
🔊/ˈbeɪsmənt/
🔊/ˈbeɪsmənt/
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  1. a room or rooms in a building, partly or completely below the level of the ground地下室
    • Kitchen goods are sold in the basement.厨房用具在地下室出售。🔊🔊
    • a basement flat/apartment设在地下室的一套房间
    • She lives in a two-room basement flat.她住在一个有两个房间的地下室。
    see also bargain basementTopics Houses and homesb2, Buildingsb2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • dark
    • unlit
    • windowless
    • …
    basement + noun
    • apartment
    • bar
    • flat
    • …
    preposition
    • in a/​the basement
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    Word Originmid 18th cent.: probably from archaic Dutch basement ‘foundation’, perhaps from Italian basamento ‘column base’.