BASEMENT Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

basement

noun

ˈbās-mənt

Definition of basement

as in cellar

a room or set of rooms below the surface of the ground we store our bicycles in the basement during the winter

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as in bottom

the lowest part, place, or point the basement of the outdoor fountain needs a lot of restoration work

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Recent Examples of basement The scene was filmed in the basement of the Woolworth Building in Tribeca. — Emily Zemler, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2026 Officers found Blanco hiding in the basement of a nearby home and recovered a knife from a panel box, police said. — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2026 Later that night, while talking to reporters in the basement below the theater, his tone was far different. — Joey Cappelletti, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2026 Poland also has over 86,000 places of refuge offering a lower level of protection such as basements, underground garages or subway stations, and catering for around 23 million people. — Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for basement

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There are cellars with vintages dating back to the 1880s and old wine caves covered in mildew and mold, which were a dream for a wine lover like me.

— Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Oct. 2026
The bourbon was initially matured for seven years and then spent nine weeks in the distillery’s limestone cellar to finish.

— Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of cellar

Noun

For developers managing a mix of AC and DC loads, Inam says the device collapses a number of machines—including a rectifier, an inverter, backup power and energy management—into a single unit four feet square and 12 feet high.

— Alex Pasternack, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Aetrex’s Wear Tester software uses AI to compare 3D scans of potential candidates against millions of foot profiles in its global database.

— Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of foot

Noun

Last weekend in Highland, Michigan, Rogers dismissed El-Sayed's attempts to whittle away at his GOP base of support.

— Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
The entry-level system for this 16-inch AI workstation is outfitted with Nvidia’s base-model 18-core RTX Spark N1X chip, which uses the 18-core Grace CPU processor, and its Blackwell GPU with 5,120 CUDA cores.

— Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026

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