cellar
noun
[ ˈsɛlə ]
• a room below ground level in a house, often used for storing wine or coal.
• "the servants led us down into a cellar"
Similar:
basement,
vault,
crypt,
undercroft,
underground room,
catacomb,
sub-basement,
lower ground floor,
garden flat,
below stairs,
cellar
verb
• store (wine) in a cellar.
• "it is drinkable now but can be cellared for at least five years"
Origin:
Middle English (in the general sense ‘storeroom’): from Old French celier, from late Latin cellarium ‘storehouse’, from Latin cella ‘storeroom or chamber’.
