This or that--basement or cellar Me-- cellar

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[Glorfindel]

1. Basement.

[debm55]

5. Ty Glorfindel

[Diamond_Dog]

2. I say basement.

Mr. D says “down cellar”.

[debm55]

7. Thank you Diamond_Dog

[FalloutShelter]

3. Always been cellar.

[debm55]

9. Thank you FalloutShelter, Me too

[MOMFUDSKI]

4. Basement.

Milwaukee

[debm55]

10. Thank you MOMFUDSKI.

[Different Drummer]

6. Basement.

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11. Thank you Different Drummer.

[Chainfire]

8. Depends on the usage of the space

Dwelling= basement Food storage=cellar

[debm55]

12. Thank you Chainfire, We called both the cellar.

[DURHAM D]

13. Under a house it is a basement.

Out in the yard it is called a cellar. Sometimes it is called a root cellar.

Also it is where you go if a tornado is coming thus for old timers it is "A 'fraidy hole".

[debm55]

15. Good explaination , DURHAM D, Maybe it is a regional thing in Western PA, but most call it a cellar.under the house. TY

[Ocelot II]

14. They aren't necessarily the same.

A basement can be any below-ground space; a cellar is typically an unfinished space used only for storage, not as a living area.

[debm55]

16. TY you Ocelot II, Ours was finished with a fireplace, furniture and TV and we still called it the cellar.

[Shermann]

21. Basements can be partially above ground and have windows

Cellars generally are fully underground with no windows.

[debm55]

22. The way my house is built the basement/cellar is above ground. TY Shermann.

[yorkster]

17. As a child north of Boston it was cellar,

also downcellar if you were going there.
Maybe that's a New England thing..

Tend to say basement these days.

We also said "thisafta" for this afternoon.
So, I'll see ya latah this afta downcellah.

Thx Deb. This is fun.

[debm55]

18. Thank you yorkster, Husband is from Bostin---Quincey area. I am from western PA, We said going down the cellar.

[keithbvadu2]

19. Basement - concrete....... Cellar - dirt

[debm55]

20. Thank you keithbvadu2. I guess it depends on the part of the country you live in. No one had a dirt cellar around here.

[LakeArenal]

23. Basement. However when I sold real estate, if there was a finished room (in the Basement)we called it the lower level.

In many places a basement apartment is a garden apartment.

[debm55]

25. Thank you LakeArenal,

[Luciferous]

24. Basement

[debm55]

26. Thank you Luciferous

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

27. Both, equally.

Whichever word comes to my tongue first. Sometimes basement, sometimes cellar.

[Jack-o-Lantern]

28. Wife is from New Jersey, always cellar... I'm from Michigan, always basement. Her soda...me pop.

[wendyb-NC]

29. I grew up calling it the cellar

The the dank, musty, stone and concrete underground space, that the structure of the house sat on. It was scarier than hell. Cobwebs everywhere.
That's what the adults, at our house called it, " the cellar".

[Sneederbunk]

30. A cellar is unfinished.

You don't play pool or watch TV in a cellar. We had a cellar when I was a kid. That's where we kept the canned fruits and vegetables.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

31. Frappe or Shake?