cellar

noun

1. a room, or set of rooms, for the storage of food, fuel, etc., wholly or partly underground and usually beneath a building.
2. an underground room or story.
3. wine cellar.
4. Sports. the lowest position in a group ranked in order of games won: The team was in the cellar for most of the season.

verb (used with object)

5. to place or store in a cellar.

noun

1. an underground room, rooms, or storey of a building, usually used for storageCompare basement
2. a place where wine is stored
3. a stock of bottled wines

verb

4. (tr) to store in a cellar

n.

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 (see cell), or from noun use of neuter of adjective cellarius “pertaining to a storeroom,” from cella. The sense in late Middle English gradually shifted to “underground room.” Cellar door attested by 1640s.