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A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
- So, taking them apart into his cell, / He to that point fit speaches gan to frame […].
- For three days he and his attendants had wandered in the forest without seeing a human form: but on the evening of the third they came to a cell, in which they found a venerable hermit in the agonies of death.
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A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.historical
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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.
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A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.
- The combatants spent the night in separate cells.
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Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.
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Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.
- Each of the two cells or lobes of the anther is marked with a lateral line or furrow, running from top to bottom[…].
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The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.
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Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories.obsolete
- How soft the music of those village bells / […] With easy force it opens all the cells / Where mem'ry slept.
- From cell to cell of his brain crept the one thought; and the wild desire to live, most terrible of all man's appetites, quickened into force each trembling nerve and fibre.
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A section or compartment of a larger structure.
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Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den.literaryobsolete
- Thou seest but the order and policie of this little Cell [translating caveau] wherein thou art placed[…].
- Not long shall honour'd Douglas dwell, / Like hunted stag, in mountain-cell[…].
syn. cell · cyte