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subbasement.

Noun
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MEANING

A level below a building's main basement.

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  • subbasement storage
  • descend to the subbasement

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The records were stored in a subbasement below the boiler room.

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subbasement

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Primary category: architecture / spatial description. Forms: Singular subbasement; plural subbasements. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.

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