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cellar

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


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The gold was found stashed in a bag under a stone cellar surface while workers were laying sewage pipes for a new homeless shelter.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 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

The garden level holds a media room, guest room, laundry room and a cedar-lined 636-bottle wine cellar carved from one of the home’s original eccentricities: a secret tunnel.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

Luxe amenities include a gym, wine cellar, and bar.

From MarketWatch Jun. 8, 2026

Aunt Kitty smiled and nodded politely, but the moment Mrs. Maroney disappeared, she raced for the cellar door and was down the stairs in a flash.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

“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

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 sultry afternoon, on his way home from the menagerie, he went to the Colosseum and bribed his way into the cellars where the wild beasts were kept.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks

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

Winter retires from the foe into his fortress, where           a magazine   Of sovereign juice is cellared in;   Liquor that will the siege maintain   Should Phoebus ne'er return again.

From Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations by Charles William Eliot

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

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

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

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

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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