Cell

Quick meaning: Cell is a noun meaning A single-room dwelling for a hermit.

Meaning

A single-room dwelling for a hermit.

More Meanings

1. (now historical) A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.
2. A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.
3. A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.
4. Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.
5. (biology, now chiefly botany) Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.
6. (entomology) The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.
7. (obsolete) Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories.

Example Sentences

The combatants spent the night in separate cells.

Gregor Mendel must have spent a good amount of time outside of his cell.

So, taking them apart into his cell, / He to that point fit speaches gan to frame […].

A nunʼs bedroom is properly called a cell and is small, bare, and plain, without comfort.

Word Forms

• cells
• celling
• celled

Synonyms for cell

Depending on context, synonyms include cyte, cubicle, cadre.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cadre, cubicle, solitary, isolation, dependency, dependence.

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