cellar
Syllables: cel·larUK/ˈsɛlə/US/ˈsɛləɹ/
cellar noun: an enclosed underground space, often under a building, used for storage or shelter.
Noun (1)
cellar (plural cellars)
- An enclosed underground space, often under a building, used for storage or shelter.
- The farmhouse has several additions, added over many decades; it has three cellars, and one of them is older than the other two.
- A wine collection, especially when stored in a cellar.
- The insurance company valued his cellar at $27,000, largely on the strength of his bottles of 1972 Château Hypothetica.
- Last place in a league or competition; some rank near last place.
- The Tigers have been in the cellar all year long, and I'm tired of it.
- A basement.
- Most of my tools and hardware are in the garage, but I keep some tools in the cellar, too, mainly for convenience.
Verb
cellar (third-person singular simple present cellars, present participle cellaring, simple past and past participle cellared)
- To store (something, especially food or wine) in a cellar.
- Mr. VandenBerghe says he’s cellared such memorable bottles as the Batch 1 Adam from Hair of the Dog, a 14-year-old ale from Portland, Ore., that’s 10 percent alcohol, and the Trappistes Rochefort 10, a Quadrupel Belgian ale that peaks around age 10.2008 June 25, Lucy Burningham, “Beer lovers make room for brews worth a wait”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC
Noun (2)
cellar (plural cellars)
cellar meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
cellar in Hindi
- underground space
- तहख़ाना tahxānā, सुरागार surāgār
cellar in Tamil
- நிலவறை
cellar in Marathi
- कोठार
cellar in Urdu
- underground space
- گودام godām, سَرْداب sardāb, تَہْ خانَہ tah xāna
More languagesFewer languages
- cellar in Bengali
- ভিত্তি bhitti
- cellar in Telugu
- భూగృహము bhūgr̥hamu
- cellar in Malayalam
- നിലവറ, ഭൂമിക്കടിയിലെ അറ
- cellar in Kannada
- ನೆಲಮನೆ nelamane
- cellar in Punjabi
- بھانڈا bhānḍā
- cellar in Gujarati
- ભોંયરું bhõyarũ
- cellar in Nepali
- सेलर
- cellar in Pashto
- زېرزميني zerzaminí, سرداب sardāb
- cellar in Tagalog
- silong
- cellar in Arabic
- قَبْو qabw, سِرْدَاب sirdāb
- cellar in Malay
- bilik bawah tanah
- cellar in Indonesian
- ruang di bawah tanah, rubanah, ruang bawah tanah, basemen
- cellar in Thai
- ห้องใต้ดิน hɔ̂ng-dtâi-din
- cellar in Vietnamese
- hầm chứa, hầm rượu, tầng hầm
Examples of cellar in a sentence
- The oenophile had a large wine cellar stocked with bottles from around the world.
- I had to run down cellar to turn off the water main.
- The growers will root cellar whatever portion of the crop does not sell at harvest time.
Forms of cellar
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | cellars |
| alternative form (obsolete) | seller |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | cellars |
| present participle | cellaring |
| past participle | cellared |
| past | cellared |
Origin of cellar
From Middle English celer, seler, from Anglo-Norman celer, Old French celier (modern cellier), from Late Latin cellārium, from Latin cella. Doublet of cellarium.
From 15th century English saler, from French salière, from Latin salarius (“relating to salt”), from Latin sal (“salt”).
Words formed from cellar
- beer cellar
- Bresnan cellar nozzle
- cellarable
- cellarage
- cellar-door
- cellar door
- cellar dweller
- cellarer
- cellaress
- cellaret
- cellarette
- cellar flap
- cellarful
- cellarist
- cellarless
- cellarlike
- cellarman
- cellarmaster
- cellarous
- cellar spider
- cellarway
- cellary
- cyclone cellar
- down cellar
- night-cellar
- root cellar
- storm cellar
- subcellar
- undercellar
- wine cellar
Phrases with cellar
Words that rhyme with cellar
- teller
- smeller
- speller
- impeller
- stellar
- seller
- acerebellar
- anticerebellar
- cerebellar
- cerebrocerebellar
- corticocerebellar
- corticothalamocerebellar
31 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- cuneocerebellar
- dweller
- extracerebellar
- frontocerebellar
- hemicerebellar
- hypothalamocerebellar
- intracerebellar
- medicerebellar
- neocerebellar
- noncerebellar
- olivocerebellar
- olivopontocerebellar
- palaeocerebellar
- pancerebellar
- paracerebellar
- parietocerebellar
- pontocerebellar
- precerebellar
- rappeller
- repeller
- reticulocerebellar
- retrocerebellar
- skeller
- spinocerebellar
- steller
- supracerebellar
- tectocerebellar
- transcerebellar
- trigeminocerebellar
- vestibulocerebellar
- yeller
Questions about cellar
- What does cellar mean?
- Cellar means an enclosed underground space, often under a building, used for storage or shelter.
- What is cellar in Hindi?
- Cellar in Hindi is तहख़ाना (tahxānā), सुरागार (surāgār). See Cellar meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is cellar?
- Cellar can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce cellar?
- Cellar is pronounced /ˈsɛlə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of cellar?
- The plural of cellar is cellars.
Words near cellar in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cellar (page history and authors); cellar (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cellar (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); భూగృహము (Telugu) (page history and authors); cellar (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); بھانڈا (Punjabi) (page history and authors); ભોંયરું (Gujarati) (page history and authors); cellar (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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