cellar
noun
a room, or set of rooms, for the storage of food, fuel, etc., wholly or partly underground and usually beneath a building.
cellars
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pluralof cellar.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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present tense formof cellar (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
cellarnouna room, or set of rooms, for the storage of food, fuel, etc., wholly or partly underground and usually beneath a building.
Example Sentences
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In cellars and basements across the city, African-Americans hosted parties where white and black New Yorkers regularly shared the dance floor, imbibed together and sometimes got into fisticuffs that prompted the intervention of neighborhood watchmen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
This can lead to water filtering upwards above roads or into cellars and basements.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026
“I have felt for a long time that there are thousands and thousands of American citizens with cellars full of guns,” Close said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2026
That preference held across a wide range of indoor environments, from science labs to art studios, locker rooms to wine cellars.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 11, 2024
Mole's Town was bigger than it seemed, but three quarters of it was under the ground, in deep warm cellars connected by a maze of tunnels.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
