an underground room, rooms, or storey of a building, usually used for storage
Compare basementa place where wine is stored a stock of bottled wines
- (transitive)
to store in a cellar
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cel•lar /ˈsɛlɚ/USA pronunciation
n. [countable]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026- Buildinga room or set of rooms underground and usually beneath a building:The furnace is down in the cellar.
- Sport[ usually singular: the + ~] the last or lowest place in a ranking:The ball club went from the cellar to first place in just one year.
cel•lar
(sel′ər),USA pronunciation n.
v.t.
cel′lar•less, adj.
- Buildinga room, or set of rooms, for the storage of food, fuel, etc., wholly or partly underground and usually beneath a building.
- an underground room or story.
- WineSee wine cellar.
- Sportthe lowest position in a group ranked in order of games won:The team was in the cellar for most of the season.
v.t.
- to place or store in a cellar.
- Latin cellārium storeroom, equivalent. to cell(a) cell1 + -ārium -ary; later respelling, respelled to reflect Latin form; see -er2, -ar2
- Anglo-French
- Middle English celer 1175–1225
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