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cellar

[sel-er] / ˈsɛl ər /
NOUN
underground story of building
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


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This property came with plenty of bells and whistles as well: a $200,000 candy room, a 2,500-bottle wine cellar loaded with cases of Dom Perignon, and an art installation featuring a chrome machine gun.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Additional amenities include a home theater, wine cellar, and fitness center.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

My father burst in and said 'in to the cellar, the Germans are coming'.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

It boasts of amenities including a resort-style pool, hot tub, cold plunge, tennis court and 5,000-bottle wine cellar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

Max takes me to the steps leading out of the cellar, up to two slanting doors that go straight onto the street.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

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

“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

Soon, families began showing up at his workshop with violins that had been stored away in attics and cellars, each with its own haunting story.

From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2024

One or two of the priests shifted uncomfortably, for “downstairs” meant the cellars below the building: white-tiled rooms with points for anbaric current, soundproofed and well-drained.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

That said, it could also be cellared for a few years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025

“It transforms cellared vegetables and stale bread into something absolutely magical,” she said.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2025

Bonnie Raitt’s fireside longshot drinks like a cellared fine wine, but wasn’t exactly zeitgeisty.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2023

An adage had it that you drank wine cellared by your parents, and bought wine for your children.

From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2020

They had many towns—some even of two hundred houses, of which dwellings many were cellared, framed, and glazed.

From The Hidden Children by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

And even though glass will almost certainly remain the packaging of choice, we may see more boxes and cans, especially for wines not intended for cellaring.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2021

When Dogfish Head released the latest batch of 120 Minute, in mid-August, beer lovers lined up to pay $200 a case, with many telling Calagione they had cellaring plans.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2015

Stone’s Sysak, who has 2,600 bottles in his personal collection, shares Hancock’s reservations about cellaring IPAs and hoppy ales.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2015

Those transformations make cellaring fun, though the results can be divisive.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2015

Yes," declared Raymond, "the extensive cellaring under this place is packed to the ceiling with ammunition ready for the Day of Invasion.

From Spies of the Kaiser Plotting the Downfall of England by William Le Queux


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