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• The lower part or basement of a building or pedestal; -- used loosely for several different forms of basement.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
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• ster'[=e]-[=o]-b[=a]t, n. the substructure on which a building is based.--adj. STEREOBAT'IC. [Gr. stereos, solid, batos, verbal of bainein, to go.]

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson