Has the word "cellar" completely been overtaken by "basement?"

[Kalhoun]

@Captain_C

See, I think of a basement being accessed from a stairwell within the house, while a cellar can only be accessed from an outside source (like those mostly-horizontal outside doors you see on old farmhouses).

If it can be accessed from both, it is still a basement.

That’s how I define it (I have a cellar, as defined here). A REAL cellar will ideally have a dirt floor, but mine has a cement floor.

[guizot]

@guizot

It’s the Harvard Dialect Survey, but the maps which show occurrences (by self-reporting) with colored dots on a map of the U.S., are no long available on-line, it seems.

Now that I’m back from that restaurant with the lousy wi-fi, it’s question #117 on the survey.