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Definition of "subcellar" [sub•cel•lar]

  • A cellar beneath another story wholly or partly underground; usually, a cellar under a cellar. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Use "subcellar" in a sentence
  • "It was really a kind of subcellar reached by a door at the back of the wine cellar."
  • "The “21” Club of the speakeasy era, with its elaborately engineered system for destroying incriminating evidence in the depths of its subcellar, was best memorialized by a rumor originating in the 1950s, when the land directly behind 21 West Fifty-second Street was excavated for construction of a branch of the New York Public Library on Fifty-third Street."
  • "“Not into a police court . . . but into whatever is in the subcellar under a police court.”"