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A basement is a substructure or foundation of a building, or, the word can also refer to the lowest story of a building, usually below ground level. Breaking the word down into the two parts of "base" and "-ment" explains why the word is used to describe those things. "Base" refers to the Lowest or bottom part of something and "-ment" as a suffix in this context means result, object, or agent of an action. So a basement is the resulting object of building the foundation or base of the home or structure.

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