cellar

English

Alternative forms

• seller (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛlə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛlɚ/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɛlə(ɹ)
• Homophone: seller
• Hyphenation: cel‧lar

Etymology 1

From Middle English celer, seler, from Anglo-Norman celer, Old French celier (modern cellier), from Late Latin cellārium, from Latin cella. Doublet of cellarium.

Noun

cellar (plural cellars)

1. An enclosed underground space, often under a building, used for storage or shelter.
2. A wine collection, especially when stored in a cellar.
3. (slang) Last place in a league or competition.
4. (UK, Northeastern US) A basement.

Derived terms

• beer cellar
• cellarable
• cellarage
• cellar door
• cellar-door
• cellar dweller
• cellarer
• cellaress
• cellaret
• cellarette
• cellar flap
• cellarful
• cellarist
• cellarless
• cellarlike
• cellarman
• cellarmaster
• cellarous
• cellar spider
• cellarway
• cellary
• cyclone cellar
• down cellar
• night-cellar
• root cellar
• salt cellar
• salt-cellar
• storm cellar
• subcellar
• undercellar
• wine cellar

 

Translations

underground space

Albanian: qilar (sq) m, qeli (sq), gërdhet Arabic: قَبْو m (qabw), سِرْدَاب m (sirdāb) Egyptian Arabic: قبوة f (ʔabwa) Armenian: նկուղ (hy) (nkuġ) Azerbaijani: zirzəmi, evaltı Bashkir: баҙ (baź) Belarusian: склеп m (skljep), падва́л m (padvál), лёх m (ljox), по́граб m (póhrab), піўні́ца f (piŭníca) Bengali: ভিত্তি (bn) (bhitti) Berber: Tashelhit: tasraft f Bulgarian: мазе́ (bg) n (mazé), и́зба (bg) f (ízba) Burmese: please add this translation if you can Catalan: soterrani (ca) m Cherokee: ᎣᏏ (osi) Chinese: Mandarin: 地窖 (zh) (dìjiào), 地下室 (zh) (dìxiàshì) Czech: sklep (cs) m Danish: kælder (da) c Dutch: kelder (nl) m Erzya: мацт (mact) Esperanto: kelo (eo) Estonian: kelder Faroese: kjallari m Finnish: kellari (fi) French: cave (fr) f Galician: adega (gl) f, soto (gl) m Georgian: სარდაფი (sardapi) German: Keller (de) m Greek: κελάρι (el) n (kelári), υπόγειο (el) n (ypógeio) Ancient: κρύπτη f (krúptē), πιθεών m (pitheṓn), ὑπόγειον n (hupógeion) Greenlandic: naqqup-ilua Hebrew: מַרְתֵּף (he) m (martéf) Hindi: तहख़ाना m (tahxānā), सुरागार (hi) m (surāgār) Hungarian: pince (hu) Hutterisch: Keller Icelandic: kjallari (is) m Ido: kelero (io) Indonesian: please add this translation if you can Italian: cantina (it) f, scantinato (it) m, cantinato m, seminterrato (it) m Japanese: 地下室 (ja) (ちかしつ, chikashitsu), 穴蔵 (あなぐら, anagura), 穴倉 (あなぐら, anagura), 窖 (ja) (あなぐら, anagura) Kannada: ನೆಲಮನೆ (kn) (nelamane) Kashubian: sklep m Kazakh: төле (töle) Khmer: លេណ (lein) Korean: 지하실(地下室) (ko) (jihasil) Kyrgyz: погреб (pogreb), подвал (podval) Lao: ຫ້ອງໃຕ້ດິນ (hǭng tai din) Latvian: pagrabs m Lithuanian: rūsys m Macedonian: визба (mk) f (vizba), подрум m (podrum) Malay: please add this translation if you can Mongolian: Cyrillic: зоорь (mn) (zoorʹ), суурь (mn) (suurʹ) Norman: ch'lyi m Northern Sami: geallir Norwegian: Bokmål: kjeller (no) m Nynorsk: kjellar m Ojibwe: moonikaan Old Norse: kjallari m, kellari m Ottoman Turkish: پودروم (podrum), كنج (künc) Persian: زیرزمین (fa) (zirzamin), سرداب (fa) (sardâb) Plautdietsch: Kjala m Polish: piwnica (pl) f, loch (pl) m Portuguese: cave (pt) f , porão (pt) m (Brazil) Romanian: pivniță (ro) f, beci (ro) n Russian: подва́л (ru) m (podvál), по́греб (ru) m (pógreb) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: по̀друм m Roman: pòdrum (sh) m Slovak: pivnica f Slovene: klet (sl) f Spanish: sótano (es) m Swedish: källare (sv) c Tagalog: silong Tajik: таҳхона (tahxona), ӯра (üra) Thai: ห้องใต้ดิน (hɔ̂ng-dtâi-din) Turkish: bodrum (tr) Turkmen: podwal Ukrainian: льох (uk) m (lʹox), підва́л m (pidvál), по́гріб m (póhrib), пивни́ця f (pyvnýcja) Urdu: گودام m (godām), سرداب m (sardāb) Uyghur: ئورا (ora), گېرەم (gërem), گەمە (geme) Uzbek: yertoʻla (uz), podval (uz) Venetian: vòlt m Vietnamese: hầm chứa, hầm rượu (vi) Welsh: daeargell f Yiddish: קעלער m (keler) Zazaki: bodrum m

wine collection

Albanian: qilar (sq) m Bulgarian: вина́рска и́зба f (vinárska ízba) Catalan: celler (ca) m, cava (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: vinný sklep m Dutch: wijnkelder (nl) m Finnish: viinikellari (fi) French: cave (fr) f Galician: adega (gl) f Georgian: მარანი (ka) (marani) Italian: cella (it) f, cantina (it) f, bottiglieria f Old Galician-Portuguese: adega f Polish: piwnica win f Portuguese: adega (pt) f, garrafeira f Romanian: pivniță (ro) f, beci (ro) n Russian: ви́нный по́греб m (vínnyj pógreb) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: вина̀рија f Roman: vinàrija (sh) f Spanish: bodega (es) f, cava (es) f Turkish: mahzen (tr) Ukrainian: ви́нниця f (výnnycja) Venetian: càneva (vec) f Zazaki: mahsen

slang: last place in competition

Catalan: cua (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: jumbosija (fi) Portuguese: lanterna (pt), lanterninha (pt) Spanish: cola (es) f (physical place, like in a race), sótano (es) m (table or list place, like in teams championship) Zazaki: xırxane

Verb

cellar (third-person singular simple present cellars, present participle cellaring, simple past and past participle cellared)

1. (transitive) To store in a cellar.
   • 2008 June 25, Lucy Burningham, “Beer Lovers Make Room for Brews Worth a Wait”, in New York Times‎:

     Mr. VandenBerghe says he’s cellared such memorable bottles as the Batch 1 Adam from Hair of the Dog, a 14-year-old ale from Portland, Ore., that’s 10 percent alcohol, and the Trappistes Rochefort 10, a Quadrupel Belgian ale that peaks around age 10.

Translations

to store in cellar

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: pitää kellarissa, kellaroida (fi) Portuguese: armazenar (pt) (na cave/adega)

Etymology 2

From 15th century English saler, from French salière, from Latin salarius (“relating to salt”), from Latin sal (“salt”).

Noun

cellar (plural cellars)

1. salt cellar
2. (historical) A small dish for holding salt.

Anagrams

• caller, re-call, recall