basements
SayBAYS-muhnts/ˈbeɪsmənts/
- 1Plural of basement.
The inspector checked the basements of all three buildings for cracks.
Heavy rain left the basements along the street flooded for days.
Note
A plain -s plural with no change to the stem, and it serves every meaning of basement, not only the floors below ground. Geologists can speak of the basements beneath separate sedimentary platforms, and in informal sports talk several teams can sit in the basements of their conferences. The shortened form for a semi-basement, a floor mostly below grade, pluralizes the same way.
basements is a form of basement
basement, noun: A floor of a building that sits wholly or partly below ground level. Full entry
- Forms
- basementbasements plural
- Spelling
- basement → basements: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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