cellule — meaning in English

English meaning

• cell noun The smallest basic unit of a living organism, capable of growing and reproducing itself.
• dormitory noun A large room or building with many beds, used for communal sleeping, especially by students.

Senses

cellule is used for these senses in English:

• cell A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one. [from 20th c.]
• dormitory A room containing a number of beds (and often some other furniture and/or utilities) for sleeping, often applied to student and backpacker accommodation of this kind.
• prison cell The room to which a prisoner is confined in a prison.

cell — full definition

1. noun The smallest basic unit of a living organism, capable of growing and reproducing itself.
2. noun A small locked room in a prison or police station.
3. noun A device that stores electrical energy, used alone or grouped into a battery.
4. noun A small group forming part of a larger, often secretive, organization.

dormitory — full definition

1. noun A large room or building with many beds, used for communal sleeping, especially by students.
2. noun A suburb or town whose residents mostly commute elsewhere for work.

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