a room or rooms in a building, partly or completely below the level of the ground 地下室 Kitchen goods are sold in the basement. 厨房用具在地下室出售。 a basement flat/apartment 设在地下室的一套房间 She lives in a two-room basement flat. 她住在一套两居室的地下室公寓里。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- dark
- unlit
- windowless
- …
- apartment
- bar
- flat
- …
- in a/the basement
Word Originmid 18th cent.: probably from archaic Dutch basement ‘foundation’, perhaps from Italian basamento ‘column base’.