Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A room or enclosed space used for storage, usually beneath the ground or under a building.
- n. A basement.
- n. An underground shelter, as from storms.
- n. A wine cellar.
- n. Slang The last place or lowest level, especially in competitive standings: The team came from the cellar to win the pennant.
- v. To store in a cellar.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A room under a house or other building, either wholly or partly under ground, not adapted for habitation, but for the storage of provisions, wine, lumber, fuel, etc. In some of the overcrowded parts of large towns, however, cellars are converted into habitations for people of the poorest classes.
- n. A receptacle or case for bottles.
- Of or pertaining to a cell; cellular: as, cellar walls.
- n. See celure.
Wiktionary
- n. An enclosed underground space, often under a building; used for storage or shelter.
- n. A wine collection, especially when stored in a cellar.
- n. Last place in a competition.
- n. A small dish for holding salt.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an excavation where root vegetables are stored
- n. the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage
- n. storage space where wines are stored
Etymologies
- Middle English celer, from Old French, from Late Latin cellārium, pantry, from Latin cella, storeroom; see kel-1 in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“££ lains they dig great cellars and grottos, and strike a hole about a foot square, ten or twelve feet into the hill, which all the summer long blows a fresh air into the cellar, so that the wine in those cellar* drinks almost as cold as if it were in ice.”
““I will, my lord,” answered the executioner, “on condition that, if this must be in the way of dungeon execution, which I call cellar practice, my privilege to claim nobility shall be saved and reserved to me, and the execution shall be declared to be as effectual to my claim, as it might have been if the blow had been dealt in broad daylight, with my honorable blade of office.””
“The New Zealand wineries are similar to the American wineries and welcome visitors to what they call the cellar door.”
“Mr Haq bustled off to what he called his cellar through the fronds of polyethylene Spanish moss.”
Put On By Cunning
“The only foreign wine that Ghedina keeps in his cellar is a rough Piedmontese vintage called Vino Barbera, which costs about two francs the bottle.”
“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.”
“For wine lovers, at Vigne Surrau, a 10-minute drive from Porto Cervo, the grape harvest will be under way, and the cellar is open for tours.”
“While keeping an organized and accurate list of your cellar is key, keep in mind that many small production wines will not offer a bar code.”
Scanners and wine don't make a good blend--yet | Dr Vino's wine blog
“Now his cellar is deep enough to have plenty of old vintage of white Burgundy and white Bordeaux to draw upon to hedge his exposure to premox, and I am sure that despite his Herculean efforts to ascertain provenance on the old wines he has purchased over the last decade, it is highly unlikely that he has not had to deal with more than his fair share of expensive fakes in his cellar.”
Natural wines, premox, chenin blanc, 07 Port and Rhone – John Gilman | Dr Vino's wine blog
“If that experience were to be replicated with a big chunk of the red wines in my cellar from the vintages of 1996 to 2007, I am not sure what I would do - other than cry.”
Natural wines, premox, chenin blanc, 07 Port and Rhone – John Gilman | Dr Vino's wine blog
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘cellar’.
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A richly peopled category of palace residents back in the 15th century, which I propose to elevate to yet more ludicrous heighths
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Words that you think sound beautiful, regardless of meaning.
silver, chalice, semantics, barcelona, kindle, teeming, solace, cellar, resplendent, trellis
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