- a room or rooms in a building, partly or completely below the level of the ground
- Kitchen goods are sold in the basement.
- a basement flat/apartment
- She lives in a two-room basement flat.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- dark
- unlit
- windowless
- …
- apartment
- bar
- flat
- …
- in a/the basement
Word Originmid 18th cent.: probably from archaic Dutch basement ‘foundation’, perhaps from Italian basamento ‘column base’.Want to learn more?
Find out which words work together and produce more natural sounding English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app.
Check pronunciation:
basement