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subbasement

[ suhb-beys-muhnt ]

noun

  1. a basement or one of a series of basements below the main basement of a building.


subbasement

/ ˈʌˌɪəԳ /

noun

  1. an underground storey of a building beneath the main basement
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of subbasement1

First recorded in 1900–05; sub- + basement
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Ms. Prohaska arrived in Rockaway with nets, but the subbasement was too deep to reach the goldfish, she said.

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For one thing, the hotel’s reputation had plummeted into its subbasement, with mocking public complaints about peeling wallpaper, worn furniture and bedbugs.

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The institute also converted a vast subbasement in its main building into a shelter with cots and a cooking area.

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He — Johannes Martin Kränzle, a characterful foil to Volle’s Wotan — forms his own dominion of research in the subbasement.

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This one had restricted levels above the lecture hall and admin offices, as well as a second bay of elevators and stairs which led to five tiers of subbasement.

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