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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

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

The notion that red wine must be served at room temperature is an outdated concept based on it being kept in the much cooler conditions of a cellar, says Bartolotta.

From BBC Jul. 12, 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

Seidel took sick leave from his newspaper delivery job, packed tools and a week’s worth of bread and cheese, and moved into the cellar of a building on the western side of the wall.

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

“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

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

Mole's Town was bigger than it seemed, but three quarters of it was under the ground, in deep warm cellars connected by a maze of tunnels.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

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

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

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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