The meaning of Crypt

noun

The floor of a building which is partly or entirely below ground level.

Usage examples:

They went down the stairs into the basement

noun

A part of a building that is below the level of the first floor

Usage examples:

The hardware department is in the basement.

noun

An underground cemetery consisting of a subterranean gallery with recesses for tombs, as constructed by the ancient romans.

Usage examples:

While their roman counterparts worshipped in catacombs and underground vaults, the egyptian christi…

noun

A series of underground passages and rooms where bodies were buried in the past

Usage examples:

They went down into catacombs beneath the church.

noun

A room below ground level in a house, often used for storing wine or coal.

Usage examples:

The servants led us down into a cellar

verb

Store (wine) in a cellar.

Usage examples:

It is drinkable now but can be cellared for at least five years

noun

An ancient egyptian tomb consisting of an underground burial chamber with rooms above it (at ground level) to store offerings.

Usage examples:

The other wives and attendants tombs were built beside the king's pyramid but were only small recta…

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 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

The crypt of a church.

Usage examples:

The spatial result resembles a cathedral crypt or an undercroft, yet it is all above ground.

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