basement : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: basement	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for basement
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
basement n the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage Synonym(s): basement, cellar the ground floor facade or interior in Renaissance architecture
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Basement \Base"ment\, n. [F. soubassement. Of uncertain origin. Cf. {Base}, a., {Bastion}.] (Arch.) The outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure. ( See {Base}, n., 3 (a) .) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively. {Basement membrane} (Anat.), a delicate membrane composed of a single layer of flat cells, forming the substratum upon which, in many organs, the epithelioid cells are disposed.