[ UK /sˈɛlɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈsɛɫɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. an excavation where root vegetables are stored
  2. the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage
  3. storage space where wines are stored
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How To Use cellar In A Sentence

  • Jim Devine said the £2326 of "joinery" was for storing personal and party political material in a pub cellar he was renting. Archive 2009-06-01
  • The restaurant, with its acre of tables, glassed and naperied; the ranges of telephone booths, all going it together; the cellars, a vast subterrene, with dusky avenues of lockers, each cluttered with beverages of individual predilection -- though I suppose that, after all, they were a good deal alike .... On the Stairs
  • In deep cellars stocked with winter ice the temperature was kept below eight degrees. Times, Sunday Times
  • Generally the better dealers avoid such goods, but in the case of the saltcellar, the dealer hadn't been able to resist. ON A WICKED DAWN
  • As a rule of thumb, the villages of Barolo and La Morra produce the most perfumed win es, while Monforte d 'Alba and Serralunga produce more structured, powerful wines that require substantial cellaring. In Search of Barolo
  • We can certainly prefer not carrying endless scuttles of coal up from the cellar.
  • The bottles are then capped and placed in the cool cellars of the winery for up to 2 years.
  • It consisted of three stories and a large basement which contained servants quarters, pantries, laundry, cellars etc.
  • Grandfather sold the russets and the codlings and the pippins from his orchard, and those he didn't sell he stored in his pristine white-washed cellar, where huge black hams and sides of bacon were hanging from black hooks.
  • Minas knew everyone, having cadged dinners and so-called symposia out of most people who had a dining room or a courtyard that lay close to a good wine cellar. See Delphi and Die
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