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cellar

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


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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

How many plunge pools are in the palatial Tierra Santa Healing House, which just opened in the cellar of the Faena New York hotel.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

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

From MarketWatch Jun. 8, 2026

He peered into a cellar in the East, not knowing who was on the other side.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

And there may have been even more important acts, if indeed the hotel’s cellars were used to hide escaped French prisoners of war.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

This can lead to water filtering upwards above roads or into cellars and basements.

From BBC Feb. 18, 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

We were dumb to think we could keep it going the way we did, even underground, even when we’d moved everything out of the office and into people’s cellars and back rooms.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

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

Owen: It’s unclear where the wine comes from, although the label notes it’s cellared and bottled by DC Flynt MW Selections in Modesto, California.

From Seattle Times Dec. 16, 2021

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

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

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

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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