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cellar

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


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A daily workout, and hitting golf balls on my Trackman video setup in the wine cellar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Designed with both everyday living and entertaining in mind, the property is packed with lavish amenities, including a basketball court, wine cellar, home theater, entertainer’s bar, and spacious chef’s kitchen.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 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

During that winter, the farmhouse's cellar flooded, the pipes froze and "the tractor just decided to go kaput".

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

He was down in the cellar, among the waste and entrails.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

“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

And though Drouhin simply acknowledged her own winery, I’ll do more than that: No trip to Beaune would be complete without a visit to the impressive historic cellars of Maison Joseph Drouhin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025

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

Gunners sleep, nuns in a crypt beneath the cathedral sleep, children in old corsairs’ cellars sleep in the laps of sleeping mothers.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

“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

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

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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