cellar

[US]/ˈselə(r)/
[UK]/ˈselər/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. underground storage room; place for storing wine; basement
vt. store in a cellar

Phrases & Collocations

wine cellar

dark cellar

damp cellar

cellar door

Example Sentences

a cold, damp cellar;

the entire cellar was seething with spiders.

The cellar was soon cleared out.

The cellar was flooded with water.

Nothing remains of the old house but the cellar hole.

The wine has been cellared for ten years.

waterproof watches; a fireproof cellar door.

The revitalized team came from the cellar to win the pennant.

The cellar was dark and forbidding; moreover, I knew a family of mice had nested there.

And whether they play in smoky cellar clubs or spacious concert hall,jazz musicians are drawing record crowds.

Jo liked this, and after an energetic rummage from garret to cellar, subsided on the sofa to nurse her cold with arsenicum and books.

We shut the cellar door behind us, and when they found the bag they spilt it out on the floor, and it was a lovely sight, all them yaller-boys.

When Tom’s companions drank to the Hans en Kelderr, or Jack in the low cellar, he could not help displaying an extraordinary complacence of countenance.

These included the great kitchen, privy kitchen, cellar, larder, pantry, buttery, ewery, saucery, chaundry, spicery, poultery and victualling house.

In the aborgine language, Wirra Wirra means “place of happiness”. Let us meet at Aussino Cellar and for the happy life, cheers!

Real-world Examples

An acquaintance let them use a cellar under his studio.

Source: TED-Ed (video version)

" Quick, Dorothy, " she screamed. " Run for the cellar! "

Source: The Wizard of Oz (Simplified Version)

Did you search the grounds? Attics to cellar.

Source: Roman Holiday Selection

What's the deal with the freaky underground cellar?

Source: The Vampire Diaries Season 2

The One-Eyed Witch passageway. - Leads you to Honeyduke's cellar.

Source: Films

We've brought up eight barrels of ale from the cellar.

Source: Game of Thrones (Season 1)

To claim any knowledge of wine one must at least own a cellar.

Source: New Concept English: Vocabulary On-the-Go, Book Three.

Right over here. There's a cellar that goes to our old property.

Source: The Vampire Diaries Season 2

I need to get to my family's cellar.

Source: The Vampire Diaries Season 2

But now that you're back, we can restock the wine cellar. Let's toast.

Source: Desperate Housewives (Audio Version) Season 1

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