Definition of Basement

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Definition of Basement
	Basement 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. Related Definitions: As, Base, Building, Collectively, Distinct, Floor, Ground, Hence, Of, Or, Outer, Part, See, Story, Substructure, That, The, Treated, Wall, When

Basement Quotations

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
Theodore Roosevelt

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!
John Piper

Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.
Neil Young

I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming.
Sebastian Bach

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.
Francis Ford Coppola

I signal with an independent label, Continuum. After that I put out a totally independent record, sold fourteen thousand of them from my basement, bought a house, started raising my kid, made a decent living.
Kid Rock

White Zombie was a bunch of kids with the worst equipment playing in a basement. But that is what is so great about it. There is no reason to think that you can't do it.
Rob Zombie

A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.
Antonin Scalia

My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.
Ben Affleck

Basement Translations

basement in Afrikaans is kelder
basement in Dutch is kelder
basement in Finnish is kellari
basement in French is sou-sol, sous sol, cave
basement in Hungarian is alagsor
basement in Norwegian is kjeller

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