Like the word penthouse, do the apartments built -60 centimeters below the ground floor have a particular name?
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2What is special about 60 cm as opposed to 30 cm or 90 cm? Housing terminology is very localized, and will vary by country and region.– chosterSep 17, 2019 at 18:37
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basement apartments, lots of them in NY, for example. Don't about about the 60 centimeter thing.– LambieSep 17, 2019 at 18:39
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Are the apartment's occupants gnomes? 60 centimeters below the ground floor, that's an apartment less than two-feet high. Only newborn babies could walk around in that-- if newborn babies could walk.– user361733Sep 17, 2019 at 19:07
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@Nancy the 60 cm might be the height of the ceiling about ground level, to allow space for windows. A habitable basement is rarely fully below ground level. The ground floor then has a few steps up to its door.– Weather VaneSep 17, 2019 at 19:10
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Bezad Falahati. Do you mean that the floor of the basement apartment is 60 centimetres below ground level which suggests that the floor of the ground floor apartment is around 2 metres above ground level. In my experience most basement apartments are set deeper than this, more like a metre to a metre and a half at least.– BoldBenSep 17, 2019 at 23:54
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One such term is garden-level apartment.
A garden-level apartment is considered to be generally situated between a basement and first floor, so that people standing up inside it would find their heads at or around street level.
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a part of a building consisting of rooms that are partly or completely below the level of the ground:
- Our kitchenware department is in the basement.
- a basement flat
(Cambridge Dictionary)
answered Sep 17, 2019 at 18:38
