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cellar /ˈsɛlə /noun1A room below ground level in a house, often used for storing wine or coal: the servants led us down into a cellar a wine cellar...- Why do new Irish houses have no cellars or utility rooms?
- Modernism got rid of attics, sheds, cellars and peripheral rooms.
- The basement comprises the usual kitchen, maids' rooms and cellars associated with a grand country house of the period, more normally located in a separate wing.
Synonyms basement, vault, crypt, undercroft, underground room, catacomb; garden flat, sub-basement, lower ground floor British dated below stairs 1.1A stock of wine: he spent years building up a remarkable cellar of aged Riojas...- It has one of the best cellars of French wine in London to select from.
- He used to be a big drinker - he used to spend £10,000 a year laying down wines for his personal cellar.
- All of this does nothing at all to explain why the vast majority of the wines in my cellar today are from Europe.
verb [with object]Store (wine) in a cellar: it is drinkable now but can be cellared for at least five years...- Gamay juice also tends to be vinified in a hurry, not least because of market pressure for Beaujolais nouveau, and if Gamay-based wines are cellared for more than two or three years it is usually by mistake.
- However, some wine lovers also enjoy cellaring their Champagne for a few extra years.
- I have tried cellaring these wines and almost invariably the results are disappointing.
Origin Middle English (in the general sense 'storeroom'): from Old French celier, from late Latin cellarium 'storehouse', from Latin cella 'storeroom or chamber'. Rhymes a cappella, Arabella, Bella, bestseller, Capella, Cinderella, citronella, Clarabella, corella, Daniela, Della, dispeller, dweller, Ella, expeller, favela, fella, fellah, feller, Fenella, Floella, foreteller, Heller, impeller, interstellar, Keller, Louella, Mandela, mortadella, mozzarella, Nigella, novella, paella, panatella, patella, predella, propeller, queller, quinella, repeller, rosella, rubella, salmonella, Santiago de Compostela, seller, smeller, speller, Stella, stellar, tarantella, teller, umbrella, Viyella |