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Downstairs vs Basement - What's the difference?

downstairs | basement |

As nouns the difference between downstairs and basement

is that downstairs is (slang) the genitalia while basement is a floor of a building below ground level.

As an adjective downstairs

is a floor lower than the one a speaker currently occupies.

As an adverb downstairs

is living, stepping, or coming down the stairs.

downstairs

English

Adjective

(further)
  • A floor lower than the one a speaker currently occupies.

    • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • living, stepping, or coming down the stairs

    • Noun

    (-)
  • (slang) The genitalia
    • The wind lifted up her skirt and I caught a glimpse of her downstairs .

    Antonyms

    * upstairs

    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