- cellar⇄cellar, noun, verb.
- cellar⇄expr. the cellar, (U.S. Informal, Sports.) the last place in a ranking.
Ex. In the last twelve years the team has missed the playoffs eleven times, and has finished in the cellar in the six-team NHL nine times (Maclean's). - cellar⇄noun 1. an underground room or rooms, usually under a building and often used for storing food or fuel.
Ex. The plumber went down into the cellar to fix the leaky pipe. I came upstairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar (William Congreve). - cellar⇄v.t. to put into a cellar; store as if in a cellar.
Ex. his sympathies ... cellared in the depths of his mind (W. S. Mayo).