cellar

Everyday

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 →

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 Jewish tradition

It means a storehouse for wine and oil, kept as royal treasure under David's officers.

Interpretation. The list shows that David's kingdom was well run, with officials over each kind of produce. Tradition values such order as part of a just government.

Examples

• and over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite; and over the increase of the vineyards for the wine-cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite; (Writings 1CH.27.27, JPS 1917) tree →
• and over the olive-trees and the sycomore-trees that were in the Lowland was Baal-hanan the Gederite; and over the cellars of oil was Joash; (Writings 1CH.27.28, JPS 1917) 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).