how to pronounce basement

/ˈbɛɪs.mənt/

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basement is pronounced in two syllables

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bɛɪsmənt

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An example use of basement in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… past the window of our basement office …”

meaning of basement

Basement is a room or area that is below the ground level of a building.

basement frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word basement occurs in english on average 8.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics basement can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that basement can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;

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