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cell

noun · verb · 32 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • /sɛl/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • homophone: cel
  • homophone: sell
  • rhymes with -ɛl
  • CMU ARPABET: S EH1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A single-room dwelling for a hermit.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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2

noun

Meaning 2

A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: historical

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3

noun

Meaning 3

A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

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

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Synonyms: none provided

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4

noun

Meaning 4

A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • The combatants spent the night in separate cells.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: prison cell

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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6

noun

Meaning 6

Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences

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7

noun

Meaning 7

The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: biology, entomology, natural-sciences

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8

noun

Meaning 8

Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

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9

noun

Meaning 9

A section or compartment of a larger structure.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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10

noun

Meaning 10

Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: literary, obsolete

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11

noun

Meaning 11

A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • This MP3 player runs on 2 AAA cells.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: biology, natural-sciences

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13

noun

Meaning 13

A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: climatology, meteorology, natural-sciences

Examples

  • There is a powerful storm cell headed our way.

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Synonyms: none provided

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14

noun

Meaning 14

The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: cellular-automata, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

Examples

  • The upper right cell always starts with the color green.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

15

noun

Meaning 15

In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: card-games, games

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16

noun

Meaning 16

A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Those three fellows are the local cell of that organization.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

17

noun

Meaning 17

A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: communication, communications

Examples

  • Virtual Channel number 5 received 170 cells.

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Synonyms: none provided

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18

noun

Meaning 18

A region of radio reception, or the group of devices that uses it, that is a part of a larger radio network.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: communications, electrical-engineering, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, telecommunications

Examples

  • I get good reception in my home because it is near a cell tower.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

19

noun

Meaning 19

A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences

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20

noun

Meaning 20

The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: mathematics, sciences, statistics

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21

noun

Meaning 21

The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: architecture

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22

noun

Meaning 22

A cella.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: architecture

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23

noun

Meaning 23

An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: biology, entomology, natural-sciences

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Synonyms: none provided

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24

noun

Meaning 24

A cellular phone.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, India, New-Zealand, Philippines, US, informal

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

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25

verb

Meaning 25

To place or enclose in a cell.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

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26

noun

Meaning 26

(biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: living thing, animate thing

Narrower terms: recombinant, blastomere, flagellated cell, fiber, fibre, Kupffer's cell, beta cell, somatic cell, vegetative cell, blastema, zygote, fertilized ovum, parthenote, embryonic cell, formative cell, akaryocyte, akaryote, acaryote, reproductive cell, germ cell, sex cell, gametocyte, polar body, Leydig cell, Leydig's cell, Sertoli cell, Sertoli's cell, plant cell, archespore, archesporium, daughter cell, mother cell, arthrospore

27

noun

Meaning 27

a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: electric cell

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: electrical device

Narrower terms: electrolytic cell, fuel cell, solar cell, photovoltaic cell, storage cell, secondary cell, voltaic cell, galvanic cell, primary cell

28

noun

Meaning 28

a room where a prisoner is kept

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: jail cell, prison cell

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: room

Narrower terms: bullpen, detention cell, detention centre, cooler, tank, dungeon, guardroom, hold, keep, sweatbox

29

noun

Meaning 29

small room in which a monk or nun lives

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: cubicle

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: room

30

noun

Meaning 30

any small compartment

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the cells of a honeycomb

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: compartment

31

noun

Meaning 31

a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: cellular telephone, cellular phone, cellphone, mobile phone

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: radiotelephone, radiophone, wireless telephone

32

noun

Meaning 32

a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: cadre

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: political unit, political entity

Narrower terms: sleeper cell, terrorist cell, radical cell

History

Etymology

From Middle English celle, selle, from Old English cell (attested in inflected forms), from Latin cella (“chamber, small room, compartment”), later reinforced by Old French cel, sele, Old French cele. Ultimately from Proto-Italic *kelnā, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelneh2, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”). Doublet of cella and hall.

Ellipsis of cell phone, itself a clipping of cellular phone, from cellular + phone.

Across languages

Translations

409 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: خَلِيَّة (ḵaliyya) — component of an electrical battery
  • Bulgarian: кле́тка (klétka) — component of an electrical battery
  • Catalan: pila — component of an electrical battery
  • Chinese Cantonese: 電池 /电池 (din6 ci4) — component of an electrical battery
  • Chinese Cantonese: 電芯 /电芯 (din6 sam1) — component of an electrical battery
  • Chinese: 電池 /电池 (zh-min-nan) — component of an electrical battery
  • Chinese Mandarin: 電池 /电池 (diànchí) — component of an electrical battery
  • Cornish: kell — component of an electrical battery
  • Czech: článek — component of an electrical battery
  • Dutch: batterij — component of an electrical battery
  • Finnish: kenno — component of an electrical battery
  • Finnish: paristo — component of an electrical battery
  • French: pile — component of an electrical battery
  • German: Zelle — component of an electrical battery
  • German: Batteriezelle — component of an electrical battery
  • Greek: στοιχείο (stoicheío) — component of an electrical battery
  • Hungarian: akkumulátorcella — component of an electrical battery
  • Ido: pilio — component of an electrical battery
  • Indonesian: sel — component of an electrical battery
  • Irish: cill — component of an electrical battery
  • Japanese: セル (seru) — component of an electrical battery
  • Japanese: 電池 (denchi) — component of an electrical battery
  • Korean: 셀 (sel) — component of an electrical battery
  • Korean: 전지 (jeonji) — component of an electrical battery
  • Latvian: elements — component of an electrical battery
  • Lithuanian: elementas — component of an electrical battery
  • Macedonian: батерија (baterija) — component of an electrical battery
  • Maltese: ċellola — component of an electrical battery
  • Māori: pūhiko — component of an electrical battery
  • Polish: ogniwo — component of an electrical battery
  • Portuguese: célula — component of an electrical battery
  • Russian: батаре́йка (bataréjka) — component of an electrical battery
  • Slovak: článok — component of an electrical battery
  • Spanish: celda — component of an electrical battery
  • Swahili: seli — component of an electrical battery
  • Swedish: cell — component of an electrical battery
  • Swedish: element — component of an electrical battery
  • Welsh: cell — component of an electrical battery
  • Afrikaans: sel — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Albanian: birucë — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Albanian: qeli — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Arabic: زِنْزَانَة (zinzāna) — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Asturian: celda — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Asturian: cuartón — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Belarusian: ка́мера (kámjera) — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Bulgarian: кили́я (kilíja) — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Burmese: အချုပ်ခန်း (a.hkyuphkan:) — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Catalan: calabós — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Catalan: cel·la — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Chinese Mandarin: 牢房 (láofáng) — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Chinese Mandarin: 獨房 /独房 (dúfáng) — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Chinese Mandarin: 囚室 (qiúshì) — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Cornish: kell — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Czech: cela — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Danish: celle — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Dutch: cel — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Faroese: fangarúm — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Faroese: klivi — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Finnish: selli — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Finnish: tyrmä — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • French: cellule — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Galician: cela — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Georgian: საკანი (saḳani) — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • German: Zelle — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • German: Haftraum — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Greek: κελί (kelí) — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Hebrew: תָּא (ta) — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Hungarian: cella — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Hungarian: zárka — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Hungarian: börtöncella — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Icelandic: klefi — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Icelandic: fangaklefi — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Indonesian: sel — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Irish: cillín — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Italian: cella — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Japanese: 独房 (dokubō) — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Khmer: កោសិកា (kaosekaa) — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Korean: 독방 (dokbang) — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Lao: ກ້ອງຂັງ (kǭng khang) — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Latvian: kamera — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Lithuanian: kamera — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Macedonian: ќелија (ḱelija) — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Malay: sel — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Malayalam: ജയിലറ (jayilaṟa) — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Maltese: ċella — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Manx: killeen — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Norman: cachot — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Norwegian Bokmål: celle — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Iranian Persian: حُجْرِه (hojre) — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Iranian Persian: سِلول (selul) — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Iranian Persian: سِلّول (sellul) — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Polish: cela — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Portuguese: cela — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Romanian: celulă — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Russian: ка́мера (kámera) — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Russian: кле́тка (klétka) — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Serbo-Croatian: ћѐлија — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Serbo-Croatian: ćèlija — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Slovak: cela — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Spanish: celda — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Spanish: bartolina — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Spanish: estancia — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Spanish: calabozo — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Swahili: seli — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Swedish: cell — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Tamil: அறை (aṟai) — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Thai: กรง (grong) — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Turkish: hücre — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Ukrainian: ка́мера (kámera) — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Vietnamese: phòng giam — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Vietnamese: phòng tù — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Volapük: leziöb — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Walloon: gayole — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Welsh: cell — room in a prison for containing inmates
  • Arabic: صَوْمَعَة (ṣawmaʕa) — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Arabic: كِرْح (kirḥ) — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Armenian: խուց (xucʻ) — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Belarusian: ке́лля (kjéllja) — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Bulgarian: кили́я (kilíja) — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Catalan: cel·la — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Cornish: kell — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Czech: cela — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Dutch: cel — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Esperanto: ĉelo — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Finnish: kammio — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • French: cellule — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Galician: cela — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • German: Zelle — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • German: Mönchszelle — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Greek: κελί (kelí) — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Hungarian: cella — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Indonesian: sel — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Irish: cillín — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Italian: cella — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Japanese: 個室 (koshitsu) — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Latvian: celle — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Lithuanian: celė — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Macedonian: ќелија (ḱelija) — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Maltese: ċella — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Manx: keeill — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Manx: killeen — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Iranian Persian: حُجْرِه (hojre) — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Polish: cela — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Portuguese: cela — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Romanian: chilie — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Russian: ке́лья (kélʹja) — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Serbo-Croatian: ћѐлија — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Serbo-Croatian: ćèlija — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Slovak: cela — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Spanish: celda — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Swahili: seli — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Swedish: cell — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Thai: กุฎี (gù-dii) — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Turkish: hücre — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Ottoman Turkish: حجره (hücre) — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Ukrainian: ке́лія (kélija) — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Welsh: cell — room in a monastery for sleeping one person
  • Southern Altai: кӧзнӧк (köznök) — small group of people forming part of a larger organization
  • Arabic: خَلِيَّة (ḵaliyya) — small group of people forming part of a larger organization
  • Armenian: բջիջ (bǰiǰ) — small group of people forming part of a larger organization
  • Bulgarian: кле́тка (klétka) — small group of people forming part of a larger organization
  • Chinese Mandarin: 支部 (zhībù) — small group of people forming part of a larger organization
  • Chinese Mandarin: 部 (bù) — small group of people forming part of a larger organization
  • Czech: buňka — small group of people forming part of a larger organization
  • Dutch: cel — small group of people forming part of a larger organization
  • Finnish: solu — small group of people forming part of a larger organization
  • French: cellule — small group of people forming part of a larger organization
  • Galician: célula — small group of people forming part of a larger organization
  • German: Zelle — small group of people forming part of a larger organization
  • Greek: πυρήνας (pyrínas) — small group of people forming part of a larger organization
  • Hebrew: תָּא (ta) — small group of people forming part of a larger organization
  • Hungarian: sejt — small group of people forming part of a larger organization
  • Irish: cill — small group of people forming part of a larger organization
  • Italian: cellula — small group of people forming part of a larger organization
  • Japanese: 班 (han) — small group of people forming part of a larger organization
  • Korean: 반 (ban) — small group of people forming part of a larger organization
  • Portuguese: célula — small group of people forming part of a larger organization
  • Romanian: celulă — small group of people forming part of a larger organization
  • Russian: яче́йка (jačéjka) — small group of people forming part of a larger organization
  • Slovak: bunka — small group of people forming part of a larger organization
  • Spanish: célula — small group of people forming part of a larger organization
  • Swahili: seli — small group of people forming part of a larger organization
  • Swedish: cell — small group of people forming part of a larger organization
  • Turkish: hücre — small group of people forming part of a larger organization
  • Ukrainian: осере́док (oserédok) — small group of people forming part of a larger organization
  • Walloon: trokete — small group of people forming part of a larger organization
  • Bulgarian: клетка (kletka) — small thunderstorm that forms ahead of a storm front
  • Finnish: solu — small thunderstorm that forms ahead of a storm front
  • Galician: célula — small thunderstorm that forms ahead of a storm front
  • Hungarian: cella — small thunderstorm that forms ahead of a storm front
  • Hungarian: zivatarcella — small thunderstorm that forms ahead of a storm front
  • Polish: komórka burzowa — small thunderstorm that forms ahead of a storm front
  • Swahili: seli — small thunderstorm that forms ahead of a storm front
  • Afrikaans: sel — basic unit of a living organism
  • Albanian: qelizë — basic unit of a living organism
  • Southern Altai: кӧзнӧк (köznök) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Southern Altai: клетка (kletka) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Arabic: خَلِيَّة (ḵaliyya) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Arabic: خلية (ḵaleiya) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Armenian: բջիջ (bǰiǰ) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Azerbaijani: hüceyrə — basic unit of a living organism
  • Balinese: kosika — basic unit of a living organism
  • Bashkir: күҙәнәк (küźənək) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Belarusian: кле́тка (kljétka) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Belarusian: камо́рка (kamórka) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Bengali: কোষ (kōś) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Bulgarian: кле́тка (klétka) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Burmese: ကလာပ်စည်း (ka.lapcany:) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Catalan: cèl·lula — basic unit of a living organism
  • Chinese Cantonese: 細胞 /细胞 (sai3 baau1) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Chinese: 細胞 /细胞 (zh-min-nan) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Chinese Mandarin: 細胞 /细胞 (xìbāo) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Cornish: kell — basic unit of a living organism
  • Czech: buňka — basic unit of a living organism
  • Danish: celle — basic unit of a living organism
  • Dutch: cel — basic unit of a living organism
  • Esperanto: ĉelo — basic unit of a living organism
  • Estonian: rakk — basic unit of a living organism
  • Faroese: kykna — basic unit of a living organism
  • Finnish: solu — basic unit of a living organism
  • French: cellule — basic unit of a living organism
  • Galician: célula — basic unit of a living organism
  • Georgian: უჯრედი (uǯredi) — basic unit of a living organism
  • German: Zelle — basic unit of a living organism
  • Greek: κύτταρο (kýttaro) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Hebrew: תָּא (ta) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Hindi: कोशिका (kośikā) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Hungarian: sejt — basic unit of a living organism
  • Icelandic: fruma — basic unit of a living organism
  • Ido: celulo — basic unit of a living organism
  • Indonesian: sel — basic unit of a living organism
  • Irish: cill — basic unit of a living organism
  • Italian: cellula — basic unit of a living organism
  • Japanese: 細胞 (saibō) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Kannada: ಜೀವಕೋಶ (jīvakōśa) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Kazakh: жасуша (jasuşa) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Khmer: កោសិកា (kaosekaa) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Korean: 세포 (sepo) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Northern Kurdish: xane — basic unit of a living organism
  • Kyrgyz: клетка (kletka) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Kyrgyz: көзөнөк (közönök) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Lao: ຈຸລັງ (chu lang) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Latin: cellula — basic unit of a living organism
  • Latvian: šūna — basic unit of a living organism
  • Lithuanian: ląstelė — basic unit of a living organism
  • Macedonian: клетка (kletka) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Malay: sel — basic unit of a living organism
  • Malayalam: കോശം (kōśaṁ) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Maltese: ċellula — basic unit of a living organism
  • Manx: killag — basic unit of a living organism
  • Māori: pūtau — basic unit of a living organism
  • Marathi: पेशी (peśī) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Mongolian: эс (es) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Navajo: hinááh bijéí — basic unit of a living organism
  • Nogai: коьзенек (közenek) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Norwegian Bokmål: celle — basic unit of a living organism
  • Norwegian Bokmål: selle — basic unit of a living organism
  • Occitan: cellula — basic unit of a living organism
  • Pashto: ژوندينکه — basic unit of a living organism
  • Pashto: ژونکه — basic unit of a living organism
  • Pashto: خونګۍ (xungǝ́y) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Pashto: کوټنۍ (koṭanǝ́y) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Dari: یَاخْتَه (yāxta) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Dari: حُجْرَه (hujra) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Iranian Persian: یاخْتِه (yâxte) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Iranian Persian: سِلول (selul) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Iranian Persian: سِلّول (sellul) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Pohnpeian: sehl — basic unit of a living organism
  • Polish: komórka — basic unit of a living organism
  • Portuguese: célula — basic unit of a living organism
  • Romanian: celulă — basic unit of a living organism
  • Russian: кле́тка (klétka) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Russian: ячейка (jačejka) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Scottish Gaelic: cealla — basic unit of a living organism
  • Serbo-Croatian: ста̀ница — basic unit of a living organism
  • Serbo-Croatian: ћѐлија — basic unit of a living organism
  • Serbo-Croatian: stànica — basic unit of a living organism
  • Serbo-Croatian: ćèlija — basic unit of a living organism
  • Sinhalese: සෛල (saila) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Slovak: bunka — basic unit of a living organism
  • Slovene: celica — basic unit of a living organism
  • Slovene: celula — basic unit of a living organism
  • Spanish: célula — basic unit of a living organism
  • Swahili: seli — basic unit of a living organism
  • Swedish: cell — basic unit of a living organism
  • Tagalog: selula — basic unit of a living organism
  • Tajik: ҳуҷайра (hujayra) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Tajik: клетка (kletka) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Tajik: ёхта (yoxta) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Tamil: உயிரணு (uyiraṇu) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Tamil: செல் (cel) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Tatar: күзәнәк (küzänäk) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Telugu: కణము (kaṇamu) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Thai: เซลล์ (seel) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Thai: เซล (seel) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Turkish: hücre — basic unit of a living organism
  • Turkish: göze — basic unit of a living organism
  • Ottoman Turkish: حجره (hücre) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Turkmen: öýjük — basic unit of a living organism
  • Ukrainian: кліти́на (klitýna) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Ukrainian: комі́рка (komírka) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Urdu: خَلِیَّہ (xaliyya) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Uyghur: ھۈجەيرە (hüjeyre) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Uzbek: hujayra — basic unit of a living organism
  • Vietnamese: tế bào — basic unit of a living organism
  • Volapük: siül — basic unit of a living organism
  • Walloon: celure — basic unit of a living organism
  • Welsh: cell — basic unit of a living organism
  • Yiddish: צעל (tsel) — basic unit of a living organism
  • Zazaki: hucre — basic unit of a living organism
  • Arabic: خَلِيَّة (ḵaliyya) — biological cavity
  • Armenian: բջիջ (bǰiǰ) — biological cavity
  • Bulgarian: кили́йка (kilíjka) — biological cavity
  • Cornish: kell — biological cavity
  • Czech: buňka — biological cavity
  • Danish: celle — biological cavity
  • Faroese: kykna — biological cavity
  • Finnish: kenno (of a honeycomb) — biological cavity
  • French: cellule (of a honeycomb) — biological cavity
  • Greek: οπή (opí) — biological cavity
  • Greek: κελί (kelí) — biological cavity
  • Hindi: कोशिका (kośikā) — biological cavity
  • Hungarian: lépsejt — biological cavity
  • Japanese: 巣穴 (suana) — biological cavity
  • Latvian: šūna — biological cavity
  • Lithuanian: akis — biological cavity
  • Macedonian: ќелија (ḱelija) — biological cavity
  • Maltese: xehda — biological cavity
  • Polish: komórka — biological cavity
  • Portuguese: célula — biological cavity
  • Russian: яче́йка (jačéjka) — biological cavity
  • Slovak: bunka — biological cavity
  • Swahili: seli — biological cavity
  • Swedish: cell — biological cavity
  • Ukrainian: комі́рка (komírka) — biological cavity
  • Volapük: ziöb — biological cavity
  • Welsh: cell — biological cavity
  • Bulgarian: кле́тка (klétka) — minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior
  • Hindi: कोशिका (kośikā) — minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior
  • Japanese: セル (seru) — minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior
  • Macedonian: ќелија (ḱelija) — minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior
  • Polish: komórka — minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior
  • Swahili: seli — minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior
  • Bulgarian: кле́тка (klétka) — a short, fixed-length packet as in asynchronous transfer mode
  • Finnish: solu — a short, fixed-length packet as in asynchronous transfer mode
  • Japanese: セル (seru) — a short, fixed-length packet as in asynchronous transfer mode
  • Macedonian: ќелија (ḱelija) — a short, fixed-length packet as in asynchronous transfer mode
  • Polish: komórka — a short, fixed-length packet as in asynchronous transfer mode
  • Swahili: seli — a short, fixed-length packet as in asynchronous transfer mode
  • Arabic: خَلِيَّة (ḵaliyya) — region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network
  • Armenian: բջիջ (bǰiǰ) — region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network
  • Bulgarian: кле́тка (klétka) — region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network
  • Czech: buňka — region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network
  • Polish: komórka — region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network
  • Slovak: bunka — region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network
  • Swahili: seli — region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network
  • Korean: 포 (po) — geometry: a three-dimensional facet of a polytope
  • Macedonian: ќелија (ḱelija) — geometry: a three-dimensional facet of a polytope
  • Swahili: seli — geometry: a three-dimensional facet of a polytope
  • Bulgarian: кле́тка (klétka) — statistics: the unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect
  • Hungarian: cella — statistics: the unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect
  • Hungarian: táblázatcella — statistics: the unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect
  • Asturian: alviola — each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb
  • Asturian: caxulla — each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb
  • Asturian: vasu — each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb
  • Spanish: celdilla — each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb
  • Spanish: vasillo — each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb
  • Spanish: alvéolo — each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb
  • Spanish: alveolo — each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb
  • Spanish: celda — each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb
  • Afrikaans: selfoon — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • Arabic: خَلَوِيّ (ḵalawiyy) — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • Armenian: բջջային (bǰǰayin) — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • Chinese Cantonese: 手機 /手机 (sau2 gei1) — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • Chinese Cantonese: 手提 (sau2 tai4) — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • Chinese Mandarin: 手機 /手机 (shǒujī) — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • Chinese Mandarin: 大哥大 (dàgēdà) — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • Dutch: mobieltje — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • Finnish: kännykkä — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • French: portable — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • French: mobile — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • German: Handy — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • Greek: κινητό (kinitó) — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • Greek: κινητό τηλέφωνο (kinitó tiléfono) — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • Hebrew: סלולרי (selolári) — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • Indonesian: telepon seluler — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • Italian: cellulare — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • Japanese: ケータイ (kētai) — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • Japanese: 携帯電話 (keitai denwa) — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • Macedonian: мобилен (mobilen) — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • Polish: komórka — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • Portuguese: (telefone) celular — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • Romanian: celular — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • Romanian: mobil — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • Russian: моби́ла (mobíla) — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • Russian: моби́льный телефо́н (mobílʹnyj telefón) — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • Russian: моби́льник (mobílʹnik) — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • Russian: сото́вый (sotóvyj) — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • Russian: со́товый телефо́н (sótovyj telefón) — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • Russian: со́тик (sótik) — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • Spanish: teléfono móvil — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • Spanish: móvil — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • Spanish: teléfono celular — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • Spanish: celular — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • Swahili: seli — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • Swedish: mobil — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • Telugu: సెల్ (sel) — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • Turkish: cep — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone
  • Turkish: cep telefonu — informal: a cellular telephone — see also mobile phone