Cellar

Definition: Cellar

Cellar

Noun

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

2. An excavation where root vegetables are stored.

3. Storage space where wines are stored.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cellar" was first used: 12th century. (references)

Etymology: Cellar \Cel"lar\, noun. [from Old English expression celer, Old French celier, French celier, from the Latin expression cellarium receptacle for food, pantry, from cella storeroom. See Cell.]. (references)

Bible

Dream Interpretation

Fine Arts

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Cellar

Lowness

Molehill; lowlands; basement floor, ground floor; rez de chaussee; cellar; hold, bilge; feet, heels.

Receptacle

Attic, loft, garret, clerestory; cellar, vault, hold, cockpit; cubbyhole; cook house; entre-sol; mezzanine floor; ground floor, rez-de-chaussee; basement, kitchen, pantry, bawarchi-khana, scullery, offices; storeroom; (depository); lumber room; dairy, laundry.

Crosswords: Cellar

There are twelve bodies in the cellar and you admit you poisoned them (Arsenic and Old Lace; writing credit: Ryuzo Kikushima; Akira Kurosawa)

Alright everyone, it's the standard Grampa drill everyone into the cellar. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

In case you haven't noticed, and judging by the attendance you haven't, the Indians have managed to win a few ball games, and are threatening to climb out of the cellar. (Major League; writing credit: David S. Ward)

Well, he told me that he'd been to see these young men in a dark cellar. (The Rutles; writing credit: Eric Idle)

Now get the hell down in the cellar. You can be the boss down there, I'm boss up here (Night of the Living Dead; writing credit: George A. Romero; John A. Russo)

The Beast in the Cellar (1971)

Up in the Cellar (1970)

The Cellar and the Almond Tree (1970)

Something in the Cellar (1969)

Carson's Cellar (1953)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• 2 Picture Books by Carol Fenner: Tigers in the Cellar and Gorilla Gorilla (reference)

• Build Your Own Underground Root Cellar (reference)

• Dancing on the Cellar Door (reference)

• Dead in the Cellar (An Amanda Hazard Mystery) (reference)

• How and Why to Build a Wine Cellar (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Circuit Cellar (reference)

• International Wine Cellar (reference)

• Root Cellar (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Beast in the Cellar (reference)

• Cellar Dweller (reference)

• The Beast in the Cellar (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Live at the Cellar Door [LIVE] (reference)

• Out of the Cellar (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Haier America HVF020ABB 20 Bottle Capacity Wine Cellar (reference)

• Haier HVFO42ABL 42-Bottle Capacity Wine Cellar with Contoured Smoked Glass Door (reference)

• Haier Wine Cellar (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Helping dig the ice cellar. Because of the permafrost, this served as a year- round refrigerator. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Farmer and son walk to a potato cellar during a dust storm. Credit: Arthur Rothstein.

Sections, west elevation, entry details, window details. Measured drawing delineated by W.C. Yanike, March 1934. (Reproduction Number: HABS NE-35-10, sheet 2 of 2; negative number LC-USZA3-34) Many early white settlers in the Western plains built sod-block houses such as this one because they could not afford lumber. Some sod houses had dirt floors, sod walls that sprouted grass in the summer, and roofs of tree branches covered with more sod. Others had wooden roofs and floors and plaster walls. All needed frequent repairs, and few lasted longer than fifty years. Gustav Rohrich, an Austrian-born farmer, built this two-room house with an attached cellar in 1883 for his young family. He was still living in the house when these drawings were made in 1934. At that time, he was eighty-five years old and his well-maintained house was the last "soddy" standing in the township. Credit: Library of Congress.

[The root cellar at Military Hospital No. 1, Harbin]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[The cellar and first floor of a tenement house]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

A cellar, instead of a ceiling, is what we need for that livestock, Marvin / Berryman. Credit: Library of Congress.

Huge wicker baskets filled with bottles of champagne in wine cellar, Champagny, France--Man holding bottle of champagne and two U.S. Army Nurses listening to shop talk of the proprietor of the winery. Credit: Library of Congress.

Truck loading potatoes at storage cellar. Monte Vista, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress.

Farmer in potato cellar. Monte Vista, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress.

Three children in front of a cellar door, Chinatown, San Francisco. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

It was not in impenetrable shadow as the other objects in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar.

There was at the Chatelet de Paris a broad long cellar.

This will vary with different natures, but this is the place where a wise man will dig his cellar.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Results of market research indicate that almost a third of the Venezuelan population has had more than one cellar telephone in contrast to the rest of Latin America where approximately 80 percent of cellular telephone customers are still using the first handset purchased. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "cellar": beer cellar ♦ cellar plug(California) ♦ cellar vault ♦ coal cellar ♦ Cyclone cellar ♦ fermentation cellar ♦ fermenting cellar ♦ food cellar ♦ keep a good cellar ♦ oil cellar ♦ pump water out of a cellar ♦ root cellar ♦ salt cellar ♦ small cellar ♦ storm cellar ♦ tornado cellar ♦ Wine cellar. Additional references.

Beginning with "cellar": cellar-bar, cellar-dwellers, cellar-dwellings, cellar-flap, cellar-level, cellar-like, cellar-plate.

Ending with "cellar": beer-cellar, coke-cellar, night-cellar, salt-cellar, wine-cellar.

Afrikaans

kelder (basement). (various references)

Albanian

qilar (basement, cellarage, lumber room, pantry), bodrum (basement, undercroft). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مخزون من الخمر, ‏قبو (dungeon, vault), ‏سرداب (crypt, passages, vault), ‏الدرك الأسفل (nadir), ‏أحط الدرجات. (various references)

Bulgarian 

мазе (basement, vault), запас от вина, изба (dive, vault). (various references)

Chinese 

窌 , 窨 (to scent tea with flowers), 窖 , 地窖, 地下室 (basement). (various references)

Cornish

dorgell. (various references)

Czech

sklep. (various references)

Danish

kælder (basement). (various references)

Dutch

kelder (basement). (various references)

Esperanto

kelo (basement). (various references)

Faeroese

kjallari (basement). (various references)

Farsi 

پیش چاه , گودال سرچاه , سرداب (Basement), زیرزمین (Basement, Underground), جای شراب انداختن , انبار (Arsenal, Depository, Depot, Entrepot, Garner, Godown, Lodge, Repertory, Repository, Sluice, Store, Tender, Thesaurus). (various references)

Finnish

kellari (basement). (various references)

French

cave, cellier (wine cellar). (various references)

German

keller (basement). (various references)

Greek 

κελάρι (bin, larder, pantry, still room), υπόγειο (basement, bellow stairs, rathskeller, vault). (various references)

Hebrew 

מרתף (basement, dungeon, vault). (various references)

Hungarian

pince (basement, vault). (various references)

Indonesian

gudang bawah tanah. (various references)

Italian

cantina (basement, canteen, cellars, winery). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

倉 (godown, granary, magazine, warehouse). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そう (all, aspect, bed, class, conception, countenance, depository, destroy, elevator, ever, ex-, feel pain, former, formerly, general, go around, godown, granary, gross, idea, layer, magazine, monk, never, once before, originate, phase, priest, seam, start, stream, suffer, thought, to accompany, to be added to, to be adjusted to, to become married, to comply with, to follow, to marry, to meet, to run along, to satisfy, to suit, treasury, warehouse, whole), くら (depository, elevator, godown, granary, magazine, saddle, treasury, warehouse), あなぐら, むろ (greenhouse, icehouse), ちかしつ (basement), ちかい (basement, block, boundary, bounds of the earth, close by, landmass, near, oath, short, vow). (various references)

Korean 

지하실 (Basement). (various references)

Manx

sellar. (various references)

Norwegian

kjeller (basement). (various references)

Papiamen

bodega (basement). (various references)

Pig Latin

ellarcay.(various references)

Portuguese

adega (basement, bodega, wine cellar), despensa (basement, butting, closet, larder, pantry, storeroom), cave (basement, storage, vault, wine cellar, wineshop, wine-vault). (various references)

Romanian

pivniţã (cave, vault), beci (basement). (various references)

Romany

izbà. (various references)

Russian 

подвал (basement, vault). (various references)

Scottish

cuilidh. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

podrum (basement, cellarage). (various references)

Spanish

sótano (basement, vault), bodega (cabaret, canteen, cavern, dinette, grocers, grocery, grocery store, package store, pantry, stowage, vault, warehouse, wine cellar). (various references)

Sranan

kedre (basement). (various references)

Swedish

källare (basement). (various references)

Thai

เก็บในห้องใต้ดิน, ห้องใต้ดิน (basement). (various references)

Turkish

bodrum (basement, cellarage, halicarnassus). (various references)

Turkmen 

podwal (r) (basement). (various references)

Ukrainian

склад (cast, composition, compound, depository, depot, make up, repertory, storage, store, syllable, yard), комора (barn, depot, garner, granary, larder, pantry, storehouse, storeroom, stowage), винний погріб, зберігати у підвалі, льох, погріб, пивниця (ale-house, beerhouse, boozer, doggery, pub, shanty, tap, tap-room), пидвал. (various references)

Vietnamese 

cửa sập của hầm rượu (cellar-flap), nắp hầm than (cellar-plate). (various references)

Welsh

seler. (various references)

gala, tul. (various references)

cellario, cellariorum, cellarium. (various references)

cleofa. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "cellar": cellarage, cellarages, cellared, cellarer, cellarers, cellaret, cellarets, cellarette, cellarettes, cellaring, cellars. (additional references)

Words ending with "cellar": micellar, nucellar, ocellar, saltcellar, subcellar. (additional references)

Words containing "cellar": saltcellars, subcellars. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cellar" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: calary, calcar, Callam, callar, Callart, callay, ceiler, cela, Celal, celam, celar, celare, Celauro, celer, cellae, Cellan, cellaro, Celler, Celluar, cellur, celtae, celular, celuler, Ceplac, ceulan, cevlar, chella, Cielab, Cieplak, Cihlar, Ciller, Clellan, collah, Collam, collary, colle, Cylla, dellar, Eclr, elar, Ellar, Ellard, Kellam, kellar, Mckeller, Nelkar, ocellar, sellar, Shellard, Sillar, yellar. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: caller, recall.

-1 letter: carle, cella, clear, lacer.

-2 letters: acre, alec, call, care, carl, cell, earl, lace, leal, lear, race, rale, real.

-3 letters: ace, ale, all, arc, are, car, cel, ear, ell, era, lac, lar, lea, rec.

-4 letters: ae, al, ar, el, er, la, re.

+1 letter: callers, carrell, cellars, clearly, ocellar, recalls, scleral.

+2 letters: allergic, brucella, calliper, callower, canaller, carolled, caroller, carrells, caviller, cellared, cellarer, cellaret, cellular, clerical, collared, collaret, coverall, crevalle, micellar, millrace, nucellar, overcall, recalled, recaller, rectally, rocaille.

+3 letters: acellular, brucellae, brucellas, caballero, callipers, canallers, canceller, carefully, carollers, cavillers, cellarage, cellarers, cellarets, cellaring, centrally, cerebella, chlorella, cleanlier, clearable, clericals, collarets, collinear, colorable, coralline, corollate, corralled, coveralls, crevalles, curveball, electoral, marcelled, millraces, molecular, nucleolar, overcalls, parcelled, rachillae, recallers, recalling, rocailles, scalloper, screwball, scutellar, secularly, subcellar, varicella.