Catacomb - English meaning

noun

A complicated irregular network of passages or paths in which it is difficult to find one's way; a maze.

Usage examples:

You lose yourself in a labyrinth of little streets

noun

A confusing set of connecting passages or paths in which it is easy to get lost

noun

A stately or impressive building housing a tomb or group of tombs.

Usage examples:

The cathedral was built in 1517 as a royal mausoleum

noun

A building in which the bodies of dead people are buried

noun

A network of paths and hedges designed as a puzzle through which one has to find a way.

Usage examples:

The house has a maze and a walled italian garden

verb

Be dazed and confused.

Usage examples:

She was still mazed with the drug she had taken

noun

A container or room in which the bones of dead people are placed.

Usage examples:

The ossuary contains the bones from six different people, including a male aged about sixty.

noun

A place where the bones of dead people are kept

Usage examples:

The bones are sometimes removed to an ossuary to make more room in the cemetery.

noun

A small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried.

Usage examples:

And he took it down, wrapped it in a long linen swathing cloth, and laid it in an unused sepulchre …

verb

Lay or bury in or as if in a sepulchre.

Usage examples:

Tomes are soon out of print and sepulchred in the dust of libraries

noun

A stone structure where someone is buried

noun

A large vault, typically an underground one, for burying the dead.

Usage examples:

It is england's oldest borough; athelstan, the first king of england was initially buried here and …

noun

A structure or underground room where someone, esp. an important person, is buried

noun

An artificial underground passage, especially one built through a hill or under a building, road, or river.

Usage examples:

A road tunnel through the pyrenees

verb

Short for wind tunnel.

noun

A long passage under or through the earth, esp. one made for vehicles

Usage examples:

The train entered the tunnel., [ i ] earthworms digest organic matter as they tunnel., [ t ] the pe…

noun

A roof in the form of an arch or a series of arches, typical of churches and other large, formal buildings.

Usage examples:

A gothic ribbed vault

verb

Leap or spring while supporting or propelling oneself with one or both hands or with the help of a pole.

Usage examples:

He vaulted over the gate

noun

An act of vaulting.

Usage examples:

The barman, with a practised vault of the bar, was again serving wine