Basement

Definitions

1. A floor of a building below ground level.
2. 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

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Examples

“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.”

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