Associations to the word «Basement»

Wiktionary

BASEMENT, noun. A floor of a building below ground level.
BASEMENT, noun. (sports) (informal) Last place in a sports conference standings.
BASEMENT BATTLER, noun. (idiomatic) (sports) A team in or around the relegation zone.
BASEMENT BATTLERS, noun. Plural of basement battler
BASEMENT MEMBRANE, noun. (anatomy) (histology) A thin sheet of fibrous cells that underlies the epithelium.
BASEMENT MEMBRANES, noun. Plural of basement membrane

Dictionary definition

BASEMENT, noun. The lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage.
BASEMENT, noun. The ground floor facade or interior in Renaissance architecture.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats