What Does Cellar Mean?

A basement or cellar is one or more floors of a building that are completely or partly below the ground floor.

What is a definition of cellar?

1a : a room or set of rooms below the ground floor of a building : basement There's storage space in the cellar. b(1) : a room for storing wines : wine cellar. (2) : a stock of wines a restaurant with an impressive cellar.

What is the origin of the word cellar?

early 13c., "store room," from Anglo-French celer, Old French celier "cellar, underground passage" (12c., Modern French cellier), from Latin cellarium "pantry, storeroom," literally "group of cells;" which is either directly from cella "small room, store-room" (from PIE root *kel- (1) "to cover, conceal, save"), or ...