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SEL-uh/ˈselə/

A cellar is an underground room used for storage, especially of wine, beer, or coal. A basement can be lived in; a cellar usually cannot. Pubs: the cellar flooded — barrels were not stored in the car park as a fix.

Meaning

An underground room used for storage, especially of wine, beer, or coal.

Examples

• “The pub cellar flooded; barrels were not stored in the car park as a fix.”
• “A coal cellar in an old terrace is not a bedroom.”

Good to know

a cellar; a wine cellar. Close (lived-in): a basement. Pubs / old houses. Countable rooms. Mix-up: a seller is a person who sells.

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