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Basement vs Areaway - What's the difference?

basement | areaway |

As nouns the difference between basement and areaway

is that basement is a floor of a building below ground level while areaway is an outdoor passage offering access to a basement.

basement

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A floor of a building below ground level.
  • *
  • *:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
  • Last place in a sports conference standings.

    • Derived terms

    * bargain basement * basement battler * basementless * basementlike * basement membrane * subbasement

    areaway

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (North America) An outdoor passage offering access to a basement.