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CELLAR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage
Synonyms:
basement; cellar
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("cellar" is a kind of...):
floor; level; storey; story (a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cellar"):
cellarage (a storage area in a cellar)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Storage space where wines are stored
Synonyms:
cellar; wine cellar
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("cellar" is a kind of...):
storage space (the area in any structure that provides space for storage)
Sense 3
Meaning:
An excavation where root vegetables are stored
Synonyms:
cellar; root cellar
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("cellar" is a kind of...):
excavation (a hole in the ground made by excavating)
storage space (the area in any structure that provides space for storage)
Context examples:
There were besides a few dark closets and a spacious cellar.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He always rises at six in the evening, and he has laid down the finest cellar of snuff in Europe.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He procured a packing-case from the woodpile in the cellar, fitted a cover to it, and raided the scrap-iron the Silva tribe was collecting for the junkman.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I went into the cellar; all the barrels were gone, and of the bottles a most surprising number had been drunk out and thrown away.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
It is the custom, that every Wednesday (which, as I have observed, is their Sabbath) the king and queen, with the royal issue of both sexes, dine together in the apartment of his majesty, to whom I was now become a great favourite; and at these times, my little chair and table were placed at his left hand, before one of the salt-cellars.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
It had been a great disappointment to Mr Musgrove to find that no earlier day could be fixed, so impatient was he to shew his gratitude, by seeing Captain Wentworth under his own roof, and welcoming him to all that was strongest and best in his cellars.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
‘There is a cellar under this then?’ I cried.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If you could send her into the cellar on some errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate matters immensely.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then the woman said to the servant: “Just go down into the cellar and see where Elsie is.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I suppose I looked uncertain, for he went on hastily: “You have heard the “counting-house” mentioned, or the business, or the cellars, or the wharf, or something about it.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
