wine cellar

noun

: a room for storing wines
also : a stock of wines

Examples of wine cellar in a Sentence

She has built up an impressive wine cellar over the years.
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Deep in the wine cellar, down two or three flights of stairs from the streets of Bolzano, Italy, the hotel’s fine dining restaurant, aptly called Le Segrete, is dramatic and moody. Ann Abel, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025 Photo : Simon Berlyn/Berlyn Photography The formal dining room with a backlit wine cellar nearby. Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 20 Jan. 2025 At award-winning Zlatan Otok, guests can venture downstairs for a tasting in the stone wine cellar under the sea. Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2025 Did Gabby and her tall boots catch the Traitors slipping out of the wine cellar? Tom Smyth, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for wine cellar 

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of wine cellar was in the 14th century

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“Wine cellar.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wine%20cellar. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.

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