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# basement

«basement» in Mova's school dictionary: **a room or floor of a building that is partly or fully…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a basement, basements)

### meaning for a pupil

A basement is a room or floor of a building that is partly or fully under the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basement/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, basements in North America are common and used for storage, laundry, playrooms or furnaces; they are less common in the UK and Australia, where people may say «cellar». In safety lessons, basements are a safe place during a tornado but can flood in heavy rain. In stories, especially spooky ones, the basement is dark and mysterious.

### examples

- We keep our old toys in the basement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basement/#x1)
- The washing machine is in the basement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basement/#x2)
- During a tornado warning, go to the basement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basement/#x3)
- The basement flooded after the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basement/#x4)
- The creaky stairs led down to the dark basement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basement/#x5)
- Our basement has a games room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basement/#x6)
- The shop sells shoes in the basement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basement/#x7)
- The basement is cool in summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basement/#x8)
- There is a room in the basement of Miss Fulsom’s school where the nurses wait. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basement/#x9)

### note

Countable. A basement is usually lived in or used as rooms; a «cellar» is often for storage, like wine or coal. In lifts or elevators, «B» or «LG» means basement or lower ground. Floodwater in a basement can be dangerous because of electricity.

### In the corpora

- [The safest place in a tornado is a basement or storm shelter, or an inside room on the lowest floor with no windows.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/48-weather-emergencies/8/)
- [In a tornado the safest place is a small inside room or a basement on the lowest floor, away from windows.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/68-storms-and-wild-winds/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «basement» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/basement/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.