basement
basement Lexical Profile
basement Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The floor of a building that is partly or entirely below ground level.
"They converted the old basement into a comfortable guest bedroom and home office."
North American Informally, the lowest position or last place in the standings of a sports league or competition.
"After losing ten consecutive games, the struggling franchise remained stuck in the league basement."
In geology, the ancient assembly of igneous and metamorphic rocks that underlies the sedimentary rock cover of a continent.
"Deep drilling operations reached the crystalline basement beneath the thick sedimentary basin."
• Rhymes for basement
Word Origin & Etymology
Coined in the early 18th century from the noun and verb 'base' plus the suffix '-ment', originally referring to the foundational or lowest architectural support of a structure.