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Definitions of basement
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The base or lowest story of a building. The american dictionary of the english language. By Daniel Lyons. Published 1899.
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The story of a house on, or partly below, the ground. The Clarendon dictionary. By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman. Published 1894.
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The ground floor of a building. Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language. By Nuttall, P.Austin. Published 1914.
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The ground floor; the part below the level of the street; the part on which the base is placed. Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language. By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H. Published 1874.
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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. Webster Dictionary DB
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