wine cellar
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3.4
- noun
- /waɪn ˈsɛlər/
:
bodega
- Although Vandevere did not drink wine, his wine cellar held 10,000 bottles carefully arranged by region, chateau, and vintage.
- a wine cellar in the basement
- a wine cellar room
- an excellent wine cellar
Examples
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Moreover, it has a respectable wine cellar.
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The large key opens the fortified door to the wine cellar.
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Are you building a wine cellar?
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I was just showing him the wine cellar.
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My husband thought this would make a good wine cellar.
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Do you have a proper wine cellar?
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I'll check the wine cellar.
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Gaston flicks on the light switch in the wine cellar.
Fiction book (1997) -
Built in 1910, the two-story, 6,500-square-foot house features a 600-bottle wine cellar and three fireplaces.
Blog text (1) -
The large key opens the fortified door to the wine cellar.
Synonyms
149
1.6
An underground room for storing food, wine, or other items
1
8.3
A cool underground cellar in Spain where people store and age wine
1
5.8
A small cellar where people store and sometimes make wine
1
8.4
A room under a building used to store food or drink
A cool space in a cellar for storing wine or food
How Big
16
3.4
- Archaic
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'wine' (the beverage) with 'cellar' (an underground storage room): it denotes a storage space for wine. This compositional, purpose-denoting compound is common cross-linguistically and would be immediately clear to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Wine cellar is a literal name: wine, the drink, and cellar, a cool room under a house, point to a place where bottles are kept to 'age' and stay fresh, so it means a room for storing wine.