Definitions for cellar

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cellar cel·lar

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IPA: /ˈsɛl ər/

Cellar is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 86 anagrams from letters in cellar (acellr).

Definitions for cellar

noun

1. a room, or set of rooms, for the storage of food, fuel, etc., wholly or partly underground and usually beneath a building.
2. an underground room or story.
3. wine cellar.
4. Sports. the lowest position in a group ranked in order of games won:

verb (used with object)

1. to place or store in a cellar.

Origin of cellar

1175-1225; Middle English celer Anglo-French Latin cellārium storeroom, equivalent to cell(a) cell¹ + -ārium -ary; later respelling

Examples for cellar

The cheese is held in a cellar for six weeks; during which time it forms mold on its surface.

She went and came only through the cellar, and knew no other entrance.

Some of your money is hidden away in the cellar, I'm thinking.

He says he sat on the cellar steps most of the time and thought of the happy past.

Then it is placed in a second cellar for six, 12, or 18 months.

“Visually, the cellar was not an especially dramatic site,” he said.

Don't you think I might find some stored away in the cellar, for instance?

But the mother was with the little body lying alone in the cellar.

Titanic returned to the cellar, shot the dead rat, and brought it back to the table with him.

At Isigny Sainte-Mère, the mites were first introduced in the cellar over 70 years ago.