Examples
“The sap-boilers had planted themselves near the cellar door on the other side of the house from the kitchen door and the woodyard – the casks and tubs for syrup being under cover there; and there they had made a most picturesque work-place.”
“Since these folks came from Carthage country, the cellar door had a lock, as well as the bar.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cellar door’.
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Visuals
A list of words which yield surprising, beautiful, amusing, or otherwise noteworthy images here on Wordnik.
photochrom, fufluns, thank you, cool l..., postcard, picture postcard, cricket, physiological ill..., Gakuryū Ishii, ametropia, One Froggy Evening, rhodopsin, Santiago Calatrava and 636 more...
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Things that Can (and Should) be set O...
The words piano and sister may not appear on this list. It all started on flaming piano.
bottled water, dudley moore, wads of unpaid bills, casu marzu factories, pogroms, frozen pizzas, breakable glass f..., cacophonists, intransigents, belligerent smurfs, police academy re..., unidentified samp... and 103 more...
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Words about old houses
creaky, location-location..., lead paint, drafty, character, money pit, spiders, crooked, musty, rickety, dilapidated, Weathered and 30 more...
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Words
Just words!
enjoyed, quiet breath, my jacket torn to..., daze, missing angel juan, had, there are these t..., called, buffalo, sun, word, words and 14 more...
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Clapping games
When I was a kid, my friends and I would play these games that had specific rhymes and songs and patterns of clapping. Even now, all it takes for me to remember a whole song is just that first line...
Zing, zing, zing., Down, down, baby,..., Say, say, oh play..., Miss Mary Mack, M..., pat-a-cake, cellar door, playmate, dollies three, jolly friends, Liberace, roller coaster, piece of chewing gum and 2 more...
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Good Words
fenestering, cetic, immanent, quickening, archetypal, shibboleth, soma, wetware, heritable, Apotheosis, halcyon, cellar door and 482 more...
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elvesoncrack's Words
lachrymose, blustering, fjord, chihuahua, chiffon, catalytic, stile, gefilte, prosh, thwart, ralph, ickle and 379 more...
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Euphony
pretty words
cellar door, mellifluous, renegade, serendipity, ethereal, phantasmagoria, eviscerate
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kewpid's Words
moleskine, araldite, dessicate, cellar door, grotesque, fallacy, vendetta, raindrop, panacea, ethereal, hircus, treppenwitz and 446 more...
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Words + Phrases I Like
apotheosis, antipode, penumbra, umbra, bellatrix, zephyr, oblivion, nefarious, wicked, requiem, catalyst, ire and 89 more...
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Words suggested in response to Funk's...
In response to Wilfred J. Funk's "ten most beautiful words in the English language" list of 1932.
beer, rum, rye, sauterne, sherry, brandy, bourbon, Scotch, champagne, cocktail, lyric, serenity and 137 more...
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adamantine, almond, alpenglow, amaranth, amaranthine, amaretto, amarelle, amethyst, anacampserote, ampersand, andromeda, anemone and 153 more...
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jtc244's Words
queueing, strengths, leviathan, obsequious, milquetoast, obfuscate, corroborate, turmeric, axiomatic, homunculus, agnosia, doppelganger and 59 more...
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Enjoyable to utter
globular cluster, plutonium, specious, gibbous, umbra, penumbra, prestidigitation, grok, trippingly, cellar door, pleiades, verisimilitude and 7 more...
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Delirium's Words
milquetoast, folderol, discombobulate, persnickety, piffle, curmudgeon, suckitude, smithereens, cantankerous, shenanigans, murder, morningstar and 59 more...
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Yours, Sincerely
Here are some more words. I shall try and think of some I actually like. This is not something I can think about easily, my vocabulary is not accessible to me most of the time, but comes out in sud...
unlaugh, cute, heteronormative, cellar door, morouge, a monk swimming, rust, inflect, glamor, breve, logarithm, pop and 1 more...
Tweets
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ruzuzu I've added this to my clapping games list. Oct 31, 2011
danaxtell Cellar Door's euphone is exhaustively explored in the NY Times On Language column of Feb. 14, 2010. I'll add one hypothesis: It sounds Italian and, more specifically, like "stella d'oro," gold star. Feb 14, 2010
bilby I'm sure it first appeared in a B-grade zombie flick. Nov 10, 2009
grantbarrett I'm doing a bit of research on the history of "cellar door" being considered beautiful. I've found it as far back as 1903 so far! Which leaves out Tolkien as the originator, given that he was 11 years old then. Nov 9, 2009
dontcry It IS a wonderland beyond the cellar door. It's dark and musty, the floor is all pebbles and dirt, the walls are stone and always a bit wet. It's ruled by snakes and mice (who are constantly at war) with toads coming and going with the seasons. When the boiler fires up sounds like the end of days... There is a hidden trap door in the main house which leads to that netherworld as well. It's got a few tales to tell I'll bet ya. Aug 15, 2009
yarb I'm afraid that if I visited I would never leave. Aug 14, 2009
dontcry Sorry yarb, it's not for sale. But you can visit it - and what lies beyond - anytime! It's just on the other side of the house from the porch. Aug 14, 2009
yarb dc: it sounds idyllic, how much do you want for it? Can you ship it to me in 3-6 weeks?
rt: no, the doors themselves aren't ghastly. It's the promise of ghastliness beyond that adds to the cellar door's allure. You know, bones, runes, ectoplasm, that sort of thing. Aug 14, 2009
reesetee Hecko, sionnach!
But cellar doors aren't ghastly, are they? I've never encountered such. Most are rather agreeable, in my experience. Aug 14, 2009
dontcry Oh, it's hefty alright. Pretty ghastly as well with peeling paint, rusty hinges, and a bit of wood rot on one side. Aug 14, 2009
bilby Not particularly attractive for me. Don't tell the cellar door but I've fallen for the lilt of clerestory window. Aug 14, 2009
sionnach The sellers d'or were huddled behind the cellar door when the raid occurred. But it proved to be nothing more than a bunch of donkeys in search of carrots.
pack my box with a dozen liquor jugs.
a quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
the narpish fleens discombobulated the extraneous antimacassars.
SMACK!
oops! sorry, gang. I'm just a little lightheaded now that my escape from the heckhole (hi, reesetee!) that is santiago is imminent. Aug 14, 2009
yarb Does it betoken ghastliness, dc? Is it hefty? Aug 14, 2009
dontcry yarb - Have I got a cellar door for you! Aug 14, 2009
yarb I agree, but what's wrong with the sense and spelling? I love cellar doors almost as much as cellar door. With their heft and decrepitude, their flaked greed paint, their promise of earthy smells and ghastliness and pallor. Aug 14, 2009
sobriquet Most English-speaking people will admit that cellar door is 'beautiful', especially if dissociated from its sense (and from its spelling). More beautiful than, say, sky, and far more beautiful than beautiful.
-J.R.R. Tolkien, English and Welsh Aug 13, 2009
Telofy We got a new one today. Jun 15, 2009
djsalinger Needle and the Damage Done + Donnie Darko + Tolkein = a strong argument for beauty or at least resonance.
Most beautful pairing? The jury is surely still out. Mar 12, 2009
reesetee And Khrushchev comes out and fights with you; he brings his soldiers three. May 23, 2008
dontcry I don't know that one reesetee -- does it involve shoe banging instead of clapping? May 23, 2008
reesetee And did you do the second verse about Khrushchev? May 23, 2008
dontcry Reminds me of a fun clapping song I loved as a child:
Oh PLAYMATE, come out and play with me
And bring your dollies three.
Climb up my apple tree,
Look down my rain barrel
Slide down my cellar door
And we'll be jolly friends forever more.
I bought the house I own now, partly because it had a cellar door.
May 23, 2008
monoamine They flow together no matter how you say it. May 23, 2008
uselessness home theater Feb 7, 2007
abraxaszugzwang do you guys think that this is the most beautiful pairing of words in the English language? If not, what do you think is? Feb 7, 2007