storm cellar

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   an underground shelter where you can go until a storm passes

   Synonymscyclone cellartornado cellar

   Broadershelter

Questions about storm cellar

What does storm cellar mean?

storm cellar means "an underground shelter where you can go until a storm passes".

What is another word for storm cellar?

Close synonyms include cyclone cellar, tornado 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 storm cellar a common word?

storm 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.