A cellar is a room underneath a building, which is often used for storing things in.
The box of papers had been stored in a cellar at the family home.
2. countable noun [usually singular]
A person's or restaurant's cellar is the collection of different wines that they have.
...the restaurant's extensive wine cellar.
cellar in British English
(ˈsɛlə)
noun
1.
an underground room, rooms, or storey of a building, usually used for storage
Compare basement
2.
a place where wine is stored
3.
a stock of bottled wines
verb
4. (transitive)
to store in a cellar
Word origin
C13: from Anglo-French, from Latin cellārium food store, from cellacella
cellar in American English
(ˈsɛlər)
noun
1.
a room or group of rooms below the ground level and usually under a building, often used for storing fuel, provisions, or wines
2.
a stock of wines kept in such a cellar
verb transitive
3.
to store in a cellar
Idioms:
the cellar
Word origin
ME celler < OFr celier < L cellarium, pantry, storeroom < cella: see cell
cellar in the Oil and Gas Industry
(sɛlər)
Word forms: (regular plural) cellars
noun
(Extractive engineering: Field development, Drilling)
A cellar is a dug-out area below a rig that houses the top part of the casing.
A cellar is a pit dug below the platform of a drilling rig.
The cellar is needed to accommodate casing and drilling accessories that will be installed underthe rig.
A cellar is a dug-out area below a rig that houses the top part of the casing.
Examples of 'cellar' in a sentence
cellar
These come in all sizes and will keep your wine in ideal cellar conditions.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It has a games room and a wine cellar.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It still adds up if you chuck in the free parking and office, subsidised food and wine cellar.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The property also has a loft space, a cellar, storage space and two patio gardens.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The first wine cellar I saw was deep below the cobbled streets of Edinburgh.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
She must have her garden shed and cellar keys too.
The Sun (2011)
She can also arrange and book cellar visits and restaurants.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It has two garages and a large cellar for storage.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
They have an enormous kitchen in the cellar somewhere.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The tour of the cellars and the wine were a delight.
The Sun (2010)
There is ample room in the cellar for reds and whites.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
They were very well dug in and had made extensive use of cellars to protect themselves.
Stewart, Bob (Lt-Col) Broken Lives (1993)
Who would have thought a scene involving a key and wine cellar could be so thrilling?
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Will they find salt cellars on the table?
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
In deep cellars stocked with winter ice the temperature was kept below eight degrees.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Inca is famed for its old wine cellars converted into restaurants.
The Sun (2010)
Beneath the house are wine cellars, underground parking and storage space allotted to each property.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
There are three bedrooms, a large back garden and a cellar which could be converted.
The Sun (2013)
It also provides investment wine services, bonded storage and cellar planning.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Together the two men walked across the square and the German descended steps into the cellar of a building.
Iain Gale Man of Honour (2007)
Many of these have been converted from their original use as coal stores into bedrooms, gyms or wine cellars.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The gangs usually get into the cellar of a building that is undergoing renovation work and then make a hole through the wall into neighbouring cellars.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
There are saunas, wine cellars, gyms and home cinemas.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
A glass trap door looks through in to the cellar from the kitchen, and a circular staircase winds its way up to the tower.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Word lists with
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In other languages
cellar
British English: cellar /ˈsɛlə/ NOUN
A cellar is a room underneath a building.
The box of papers had been stored in a cellar at the family home.
American English: cellar
Arabic: قَبْو
Brazilian Portuguese: cave
Chinese: 地窖
Croatian: podrum
Czech: sklep
Danish: kælder
Dutch: kelder
European Spanish: sótano almacenamiento
Finnish: kellari
French: cave
German: Keller
Greek: κελάρι
Italian: cantina
Japanese: 地下室
Korean: 지하실
Norwegian: kjeller
Polish: piwnica
European Portuguese: cave
Romanian: pivniță
Russian: погреб
Latin American Spanish: sótano
Swedish: källare
Thai: ห้องใต้ดิน
Turkish: mahzen
Ukrainian: льох
Vietnamese: hầm chứa
All related terms of 'cellar'
coal cellar
an underground room used for the storage of coal
root cellar
an underground storage room for vegetables , esp. root crops
salt cellar
A salt cellar is a small container for salt with a hole or holes in the top for shaking salt onto food.
the cellar
the lowest position, as in the relative standing of competing teams
wine cellar
a place, such as a dark cool cellar , where wine is stored
storm cellar
a place excavated or built as a refuge from storms
cellar dwellers
the team at the bottom of a sports league
cyclone cellar
(in the US) a cellar designed to give protection from violent storms and cyclones