crypt
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7.6
- noun
- /krɪpt/
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- Visitors can explore the crypt, which holds the remains of many historical figures.
- a deep crypt
And they put the women and children in a crypt with all the dead people.
- And they put the women and children in a crypt with all the dead people.
- It's actually fighting them till dawn and keeping them out of their crypt.
Examples
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Beneath many of Italy's cathedrals and monasteries are crypts that hold mummies.
Academic text (2003) -
That is why so much music of the cinquecento was played in crypts and catacombs.
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Okay, looks like we're in some kind of crypt.
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Or a crypt in the basement?
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You know the legend written on the wall of the crypt?
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Confused, Haplo looked from his own empty crypt to one located next to his.
Fiction book (1991) -
On either side of them are two crypts, enough for four burial vaults.
Fiction book (1994) -
Until the nineteenth century, Cubans buried their dead in stone crypts beneath churches.
Academic text (2002) -
The archaeologists discovered ancient artifacts in the crypt beneath the old church.
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Local legends say that the crypt is haunted by the spirits of those buried there.
Synonyms
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3.0
A large stone building or underground room where people put a dead person
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9.1
An underground place with tunnels where people are buried
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6.9
An underground room for holding the bodies of several people
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9.9
A small stone room where a dead person is buried
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6.3
A room under the ground that holds a dead body
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7.9
An underground space for burying a coffin that protects it and holds family coffins
A room under a church used for burials or quiet prayer
A building near a church where people's bones are kept
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Etymology
The word crypt comes from an old Greek word kryptos meaning 'hidden', and you can see the same root in cryptic and encrypt, which also mean 'hidden' or 'secret'. A crypt is a 'hidden' room under a church used for burials, so the origin explains why we call that underground burial place a crypt.