subbasement
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6.6
- noun
- /ˈsʌbˌbeɪsmənt/
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subsótano
- On that particular morning, I was in the subbasement of the old Los Angeles Hall of Records, in the coroner's vault, looking at file folders containing the records of certified deaths.
- subbasement floor
- the first subbasement
Examples
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In the same subbasement in Tel Aviv that housed the forgery department, there is another series of rooms dedicated to storing details of a truly amazing number of companies, real and fictional.
Fiction book (1994) -
But they just covered up the subbasement, so... it's all still there under the park.
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So they moved it down here to a subbasement.
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And you gotta pop a hole in the floor to get to the subbasement.
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You can get to the subbasement through this electrical conduit in the floor here.
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He's being held in subbasement "D" of the federal courthouse.
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The loads were put into trains of small cars that then dove below the streets, delivering coal to subbasements of one building after another.
Academic text (1994) -
She opened the door to the stairwell and began the descent to the first subbasement and the Director's office.
Fiction book (2001) -
Hammond and Lockwood built a custom lab in the subbasement, extracted the first DNA from amber right beneath our feet.
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The holding room was located three levels below the gaming floor, in the casino's deepest subbasement.
Synonyms
8
5.4
A level below another in a building or mine
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8.4
A room under a building used to store food or drink
How Deep
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Subbasement joins sub- meaning 'under' and basement, the lowest main floor of a building, so a subbasement is a level 'under' the basement.