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Definition of Cellar

1. Noun. The lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage.

2. Noun. An excavation where root vegetables are stored.

3. Noun. Storage space where wines are stored.

Definition of Cellar

1. n. A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.

Definition of Cellar

1. Noun. An enclosed underground space, often under a building; used for storage or shelter. ¹

2. Noun. A wine collection, especially when stored in a cellar. ¹

3. Noun. (slang) Last place in a competition. ¹

4. Noun. (historical) A small dish for holding salt. ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) To store in a cellar. ¹

6. Noun. salt cellar ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cellar

1. to store in an underground room [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cellar

cell sorter cell sorting cell strain cell surface marker cell survival cell synchronisation cell theory cell transformation cell transplantation cell wall

cell wall skeleton cell walls cella cella media cellae cellar (current term) cellar door cellar doors cellar dweller cellarage

cellarages cellared cellarer cellarers cellaret cellarets cellarette cellarettes cellaria cellaring

Literary usage of Cellar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"referred to as a cellar ; but the same story might be equally well provided ... Earth cellar. A cellar in sense В above, excavated in the face of a steep ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1893)
"The air of a dwelling-house cellar should be as pure as that of the rest of the ... In a cellar properly regulated in every particular, the air from the ..."

3. The Tenement House Problem: Including the Report of the New York State by New York (State). Tenement House Commission, Lawrence Veiller, Robert Weeks De Forest (1903)
"cellar stairs in fireproof buildings. In every fireproof tenement house hereafter erected the stairs communicating between the cellar or other lowest story ..."

4. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1909)
"He also said that Mr. Preston told him no cellar could be made, and he should fill in what he had taken out and he stopped the work. ..."

5. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"cellars and cellar-Dwellings. § 434. An ideal cellar should have a uniform low temperature (from 5° to 15°); it should be dry, and be secure from ..."

6. The Yellow Book by Fraser Harrison (1894)
"The maid who opened the door to me showed me into his study, and apologised for her master's absence by saying that he was in the cellar. ..."

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