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cellar door en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌsɛləɹ ˈdɔɹ/ (General-American)
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• /ˌsɛlə ˈdɔː/ (Received-Pronunciation)
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Etymology

From Middle English celer door, celer dore. By surface analysis, cellar + door.

Meanings

1. A door leading to a cellar.
   • The cellar-door flew open with a booming sound, and then he heard the noise much louder, on the floors below; then coming up the stairs; then coming straight towards the door. 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave I. Marley’s Ghost.”, in A Christmas Carol. […], London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, pages 24–25:
2. (broadly, metonymically) The part of a winery from which wine may be sampled or purchased.
   • The 1996 Semillon Sauvignon Blanc I tasted at the cellar door was a very stylish polished wine with lifted aromatic jasmine and passionfruit aromas leaping out of the glass. 1998, Thomas K. Hardy, “Margaret River [Driftwood Estate]”, in The Australian Wine Pictorial Atlas, 1998–99 edition, Linden Park, S.A.: Thomas K. Hardy, Vintage Image Productions, →ISBN, page 307, column 2:
   • I rushed back armed with a bottle of 1976 Taittinger Comtes de Champagne Rose that I had bought from the cellar door in Reims, ready to celebrate her marriage to George. 2010, Andrew Blake, “The Metrolope & La Bouillabaisse”, in Blake’s Feast: A Life in Food, Chatswood, Sydney, N.S.W.; Auckland: New Holland Publishers, →ISBN, page 32:

Forms

Relateds

wine cellar · root cellar

Translations (19)

fi kellarin ovi (door leading to a cellar) · lt durys į rūsį (door leading to a cellar) · nl kelderdeur (door leading to a cellar) · ro ușă de pivniță (door leading to a cellar) · bg врата на мазе (door leading to a cellar) · pl drzwi piwniczne (door leading to a cellar) · fi myymälä (part of a winery from which wine may be sampled or purchased) · cmn 品酒室 (part of a winery from which wine may be sampled or purchased) · es puerta del sótano (door leading to a cellar) · cmn 地窖門 /地窖门 (door leading to a cellar) · bg избена врата (door leading to a cellar) · lt rūsio durys (door leading to a cellar) · ka მარნისკარი (door leading to a cellar) · fr cave (part of a winery from which wine may be sampled or purchased) · vi cửa tầng hầm (door leading to a cellar) · sv källardörr (door leading to a cellar) · pt porta da adega (door leading to a cellar) · ru дверь в подва́л (door leading to a cellar) · de Kellertür (door leading to a cellar)