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cellar

noun
🔊/ˈselə(r)/
🔊/ˈselər/
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  1. an underground room often used for storing things地窖；地下室
    • We looked all over the house, even down in the coal cellar.我们找遍了整栋房子，甚至连贮煤的地窖也找过了。
    • I went down into the cellar for more wine.我到地下室去再取了些酒。
    see also beer cellarTopics Houses and homesb2, Buildingsb2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • damp
    • dark
    • old
    • …
    cellar + noun
    • door
    • stairs
    • steps
    • …
    preposition
    • in the cellar
    • into the cellar
    See full entry
  2. (also wine cellar)
     an underground room where wine is stored; the wine stored in this room地窖；地下室
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • damp
    • dark
    • old
    • …
    cellar + noun
    • door
    • stairs
    • steps
    • …
    preposition
    • in the cellar
    • into the cellar
    See full entry
    3. see also salt cellar
    Word OriginMiddle English (in the general sense ‘storeroom’): from Old French celier, from late Latin cellarium ‘storehouse’, from Latin cella ‘storeroom or chamber’.