root cellar

1. 1.

   an excavation where root vegetables are stored

   Synonymscellar

   Broaderexcavationstorage space

Questions about root cellar

What does root cellar mean?

root cellar means "an excavation where root vegetables are stored".

What is another word for root cellar?

Close synonyms include cellar. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is root cellar a common word?

root cellar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.