English
Alternative forms
Noun
cellar (plural cellars)
- An enclosed underground space, often under a building, used for storage or shelter.
- A wine collection, especially when stored in a cellar.
- (slang) Last place in a league or competition.
- (historical) A small dish for holding salt.
Derived terms
Translations
underground space
- Albanian: qilar (sq) m
- Arabic: قَبْو m (qabw), سِرْدَاب m (sirdāb)
- Armenian: նկուղ (hy) (nkuł)
- Azeri: zirzəmi
- Belarusian: склеп m (skljep), падва́л m (padvál)
- Bengali: ভিত্তি (bhitti)
- Berber:
- Tashelhit: tasraft f
- Bulgarian: мазе (bg) n (maze), изба (bg) f (izba)
- Burmese:
- 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: cellier (fr) m, cave (fr) f
- Georgian: სარდაფი (sardapi)
- German: Keller (de)
- Greek: κελάρι (el) n (kelári)
- Hebrew: מַרְתֵּף (he) m
- Hindi: तहख़ाना m (tahxānā)
- Hungarian: pince (hu)
- Icelandic: kjallari m
- Ido: kelero (io)
- Indonesian:
- Italian: cantina (it) f
- Japanese: 地下室 (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 (leen)
- Korean: 지하실 (ko) (jihasil)
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- Kyrgyz: погреб (pogreb), подвал (podval)
- Lao: ຫ້ອງໃຕ້ດິນ
- Latvian: pagrabs m
- Lithuanian: rūsys m
- Macedonian: визба f (vizba), подрум m (podrum)
- Malay:
- Mongolian: зоорь (mn) (zoorʹ), суурь (mn) (suurʹ)
- Norman: ch'lyi m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: kjeller (no) m
- Nynorsk: kjellar m
- Old Norse: kjallari m, kellari m
- Persian: زیرزمین (fa) (zirzamin), سرداب (fa) (sardâb)
- Polish: piwnica (pl) f
- Portuguese: porão (pt) m
- Romanian: pivniță (ro) f, beci (ro) n
- Russian: подва́л (ru) m (podvál), по́греб (ru) m (pógreb)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: подрум m
- Roman: podrum (sh) m
- Slovak: pivnica f
- Slovene: klet (sl) m
- Spanish: sótano (es) m
- Swedish: källare (sv) c
- Tagalog: silong
- Tajik: таҳхона (tahxona), ӯра (üra)
- Thai: ห้องใต้ดิน (hông dtâi din)
- Turkish: mahzen (tr)
- Turkmen: podwal
- Ukrainian: льох m (lʹox), підва́л m (pidvál), по́гріб m (póhrib)
- Urdu: گودام, سرداب
- Uzbek: yertoʻla (uz), podval (uz)
- Venetian: vòlt m
- Vietnamese: hầm chứa, hầm rượu (vi)
- Welsh: daeargell f
- Yiddish: קעלער m (keler)
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slang: last place in competition
Verb
cellar (third-person singular simple present cellars, present participle cellaring, simple past and past participle cellared)
- (transitive) To store in a cellar.
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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.
Etymology 2
From 15th Century English saler, from Old French salière, from Latin salarius (“relating to salt”), from Latin sal (“salt”)
Noun
cellar (plural cellars)
- salt cellar
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