Synonyms for cell

noun

• a room where a prisoner is kept
• small room in which a monk or nun lives
• a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction
• a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver
• a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement
• any small compartment
• (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