cell
A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
Other meanings
A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.
A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.
“Gregor Mendel must have spent a good amount of time outside of his cell.”
A kind of
- compartment
Example sentences
Word history
From Old French "cele".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “cell” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.