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cellarous

cellarous adjective: like or belonging to a cellar.

Adjective

cellarous (comparative more cellarous, superlative most cellarous)

  1. Like or belonging to a cellar.
    • some underground way which emitted a cellarous smell1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC
    • But, a little side-door, which I had never observed before, stood open, and disclosed certain cellarous steps.1860 January 28 – October 13, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter)”, in The Uncommercial Traveller, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1861, →OCLC

Examples of cellarous in a sentence

  • But it'll be marvellous up there, after the dim fusty muffle of this cellarous bazaar[…]1999, Brian Louis Pearce, The Goldhawk Variations, page 139:
  • […] he cautiously raised his eyes and peered into the cellarous darkness.2011, Eve Ottenberg, The Widow's Opera, page 320:

Forms of cellarous

comparativemore cellarous
superlativemost cellarous

Origin of cellarous

From cellar + -ous.

Questions about cellarous

What does cellarous mean?
Cellarous means like or belonging to a cellar.
How do you use cellarous in a sentence?
But it'll be marvellous up there, after the dim fusty muffle of this cellarous bazaar[…]
What part of speech is cellarous?
Cellarous is an adjective.

Words near cellarous in the dictionary

  1. cellarlike
  2. cellarman
  3. cellarmaster
  4. cellarmasters
  5. cellarmen
  6. cellarous
  7. cellars
  8. cellarsful
  9. cellarway
  10. cellarways
  11. cellarwoman

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