cellar

English

Alternative forms

seller (obsolete)

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛlə(ɹ)/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛlɚ/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
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)

An enclosed underground space, often under a building, used for storage or shelter.
Hyponym: cellarium

The farmhouse has several additions, added over many decades; it has three cellars, and one of them is older than the other two.
A wine collection, especially when stored in a cellar.
The insurance company valued his cellar at $27,000, largely on the strength of his bottles of 1972 Château Hypothetica.
(slang) Last place in a league or competition; some rank near last place.
The Tigers have been in the cellar all year long, and I'm tired of it.
(UK, Northeastern US) A basement.
Most of my tools and hardware are in the garage, but I keep some tools in the cellar, too, mainly for convenience.

Derived terms

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, furnia f
Swedish: källare (sv) c
Tagalog: silong
Tajik: таҳхона (tahxona), ӯра (üra)
Thai: ห้องใต้ดิน (hɔ̂ng-dtâi-din)
Turkish: bodrum (tr), kiler (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)
Venetan: 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: 酒窖收藏 (jiǔjiào shōucáng)
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, furnia f
Turkish: mahzen (tr)
Ukrainian: ви́нниця f (výnnycja)
Venetan: càneva (vec) f
Zazaki: mahsen

slang: last place in competition

Catalan: cua (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 末位 (zh) (mòwèi)
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)

(transitive) To store (something, especially food or wine) in a cellar.
Hypernyms: store; keep; save; lay by, lay in

Hyponyms: (of food) root cellar (verb); (of wine bottles) lay down (verb)
- 2008 June 25, Lucy Burningham, “Beer Lovers Make Room for Brews Worth a Wait”, in New York Times‎^[1]:
  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: 儲存於地下室 / 储存于地下室 (chǔcún yú dìxiàshì)
Finnish: pitää kellarissa, kellaroida (fi)
German: einkellern (de)
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)

salt cellar

Anagrams

caller, re-call, recall