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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

It also features a wine cellar, a gorgeous office, a breakfast bar, a media room, a library, and a dedicated gym.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

He manages nine pubs, and said venue owners across the city will be planning, getting beer in the cellar and food in the fridges.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 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

Once the lantern was burning steadily, I rose to my feet and continued deeper into the cellar.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Wine cellars, cognac rooms and private bars serving cocktails have long been places to gather in luxury homes and buildings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 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

The cellars of the castle played host to a prison cell, a mess room and an armoury.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2024

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

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

Deep cellared in primeval ooze, Ruined, dishonoured, spoiled, They lie where the lean water-worm Crawls free of their secrets, and their broken sides Bulge with the slime of life.

From Poems by William Ernest Henley

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

“Different styles improve in a positive manner, whether that’s over six months or six years,” says Bill Sysak, craft beer ambassador for Stone Brewing in California, who has emerged as a well-regarded expert in cellaring.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2015

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

From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2015

He'll break out some day like a keg of ale With too much independent frenzy in it; And all for cellaring what he knows won't keep, And what he'd best forget—but that he can't.

From The Man Against the Sky by Edwin Arlington Robinson


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