cellar

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  1. noun A room or enclosed space used for storage, usually beneath the ground or under a building.
  2. noun A basement.
  3. noun An underground shelter, as from storms.
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  • They said that in her cellar was a heap of gold, guarded by a demon with skin like fire and three heads that would attack anyone it saw and eat their noses. —  Wintersmith
  • His spirit danced behind his shallow eyes, mocking everything TEN THE LONG SPOON The silence in the cellar was absolute. —  The Tiger In The Smoke - Allingham, Margery - Albert Campion 15
  • At the far end of the cellar were the ice boxes and smoke rooms where iced and smoked fish waited for their glorious destiny, as Chiun once put it. —  Destroyer 107: Feast or Famine
  • The part I play in the movie, Shakey, is what they call a cellar rat and they were the guys that moved the barrels around and hosed stuff down so Shakey didn't know much about making wine. —  Latest News - MovieWeb.com
  • No, the most amazing thing about this cellar is the absolute, sterling high-end pedigree of the wines. —  The Pour
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  1. Middle English celer, from Old French, from Late Latin cellārium, pantry, from Latin cella, storeroom; see kel-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English celler, from Middle English celler, celer, from Old French celier, French cellier = Provencal celier = Catalan celler = Portuguese celleiro = Italian celliere = Dutch kelder = Old High German chellari, Middle High German kelre, keller, G. keller = Icelandic kjallari = Swedish källare = Danish kjœlder, from Latin cellarium, a pantry, properly neuter of cellarius, pertaining to a cell, from cella: see cell, n. In the comp. saltcellar, q. v., -cellar is of different origin.
  2. from Latin cellarius, pertaining to a cell: see cellar.
 

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