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cellar

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


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There is also a music hall and an expansive wine cellar.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 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

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

So Maggie really does not want to go to the cellar.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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

Frank Aureate’s house had clearly once, long ago, been grand—the kind of house with attics and wine cellars, and oil paintings of disapproving-looking women holding small, disapproving-looking dogs—but now it wasn’t grand at all.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

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

Vee-Vee; have you no cooling beverage? none of that golden wine distilled from torrid grapes, and then sent northward to be cellared in an iceberg?

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville

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

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

“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

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

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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