Bible Dictionaries
Basement

Webster's Dictionary

(a.) The outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure. ( See Base, n., 3 (a).) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Basement'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​b/basement.html. 1828.