Cellar definition
An underground shelter, as from storms.
noun
A room or group of rooms below the ground level and usually under a building, often used for storing fuel, provisions, or wines.
noun
A wine cellar.
noun
To store in a cellar.
verb
(slang) The last place or lowest level, especially in competitive standings.
The team came from the cellar to win the pennant.
noun
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A stock of wines kept in such a cellar.
noun
A cellar is a basement space or a space below the main levels of a house, often used to stockpile of wine or other provisions.
Your basement floor below the first floor of your home is an example of a cellar.
Your collection of 200 bottles of wine is an example of a wine cellar.
noun
The definition of cellar is to store wine in a special room, usually below ground, that is an optimal temperature or provides optimal storage conditions.
When you put a new bottle of wine you have bought into a room where you already have 100 bottles of wine, this is an example of when you cellar the wine.
verb
To store in a cellar.
verb
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To store in a cellar.
verb
Salt cellar.
noun
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A room or enclosed space used for storage, usually beneath the ground or under a building.
noun
A basement.
noun
the cellar
- the lowest position, as in the relative standing of competing teams
idiom
Other Word Forms
Noun
Singular:
cellar
Plural:
cellarsIdioms and Phrasal Verbs
the cellar
Origin of cellar
- Middle English celer from Old French from Late Latin cellārium pantry from Latin cella storeroom kel-1 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From Wiktionary
- From Anglo-Norman celer, Old French celier (modern cellier), from Latin cellārium.
From Wiktionary