basement

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A floor of a building below ground level.
    — 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. A floor of a building below ground level.; Ellipsis of semi-basement, a floor mostly below grade abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
  3. A mass of igneous or metamorphic rock forming the foundation over which a platform of sedimentary rocks is laid.
  4. Last place in a sports conference's standings. informal

词形变化

basements plural

词汇关系

衍生词
antiglomerular basement membrane disease bargain basement bargain-basement basement apartment basement battler basement-dweller basement dweller basement-dwelling basemented basementful basementless basementlike basement membrane basementward English basement iceberg basement Michigan basement nonbasement semibasement semi-basement subbasement

词源

Etymology tree
English base
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English basement
From base + -ment.
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