cellar

«cellar» in Mova's school dictionary: a room under a house or building, below the ground, often… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a cellar, cellars)

meaning for a pupil

1) A cellar is a room under a house or building, below the ground, often used for storage. tree →

2) A wine cellar is a place where wine is stored, or the wine itself. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life cellars store coal, food, wine, tools or old things; they are cool and dark. In stories cellars are often spooky, hidden places. In geography and safety, people in places with tornadoes shelter in a storm cellar. Phrase: «from cellar to attic» (the whole house).

examples

• We keep the bikes in the cellar. tree →
• It was dark and damp down in the cellar. tree →
• They hid in the storm cellar during the tornado. tree →
• The old castle had a huge wine cellar. tree →
• A spooky noise came from the cellar. tree →
• Potatoes keep well in a cool cellar. tree →
• The cellars were full of wine. tree →

note

Countable: cellars. Homophone: seller (a person who sells). Similar word: basement (often used as a living space). Opposite end of the house: attic (loft).

In the corpora

• The Rat jokes about the missing luxuries and comes back from the cellar with bottles of beer.
• La cave is the cellar, not a cave; a cave in a hill is une grotte.
• In a tornado people shelter in a cellar or a small room in the middle of the house, away from windows.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cellar» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.