cellar
- noun
- B2
- Top 5000
A room under a building, usually dark and cool, where people store things such as wine, food or coal.
We keep potatoes and jars of jam in the cellar.
A narrow trapdoor in the kitchen leads down to the cellar.
The restaurant stores hundreds of bottles in its cool cellar.
The cellar smells of damp earth and old wood.
Common collocations: wine cellar · down in the cellar · a damp cellar · cellar door · cellar steps
Part of: Rooms, Buildings and places
Forms
- plural
- cellars