cellar
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ər noun
1.
a room, or set of rooms, for the storage of food, fuel, etc., wholly or partly underground and usually beneath a building.
2.
an underground room or story.
3.
4.
Sports. the lowest position in a group ranked in order of games won: The team was in the cellar for most of the season.
verb (used with object)
5.
to place or store in a cellar.
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| —n | |
| 1. | Compare basement an underground room, rooms, or storey of a building, usually used for storage |
| 2. | a place where wine is stored |
| 3. | a stock of bottled wines |
| —vb | |
| 4. | (tr) to store in a cellar |
| [C13: from Anglo-French, from Latin cellārium food store, from cella | |
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Word Origin & History
cellar
early 13c., from O.Fr. celer, from L. cellarium "pantry, storeroom," lit. "group of cells," from L. cella (see cell).
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Bible Dictionary
Cellar definition
a subterranean vault (1 Chr. 27:28), a storehouse. The word is also used to denote the treasury of the temple (1 Kings 7:51) and of the king (14:26). The Hebrew word is rendered "garner" in Joel 1:17, and "armoury" in Jer. 50:25.
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Example sentences
Teddy was worldly, liked the pleasures of dog and stream and wine cellar.
He stored it in a strongbox in the fruit cellar, under the apples.
There were besides a few dark closets and a spacious cellar.
Gardening books from the eighteenth century note it as a way of storing root vegetables that couldn't fit in the root cellar.
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