vault
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6.9
- noun
- /vɔlt/
:
cripta
- On the afternoon of October twenty-ninth, he was laid to rest in the marble vault in the cemetery high above Oneida Square.
- tombs and vaults
- underground vault
I want that low key, you know, well, you know, of some cemeteries require vaults.
- I want that low key, you know, well, you know, of some cemeteries require vaults.
Examples
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The family vault.
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The vaults are in the cellar.
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I mean, somebody had to go in to take the body from the vault.
Fiction book (1996) -
I wanted to crawl under the earth, into the vault, with his coffin.
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Yours... is locked inside a vault, buried in a bunker 10 feet deep.
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Pan rested upon a burial vault at a far end of the yard and watched their carriages arrive.
Fiction book (1990) -
When Daphne's coffin was slid into the Dumas family vault, my thoughts went to Daddy.
Fiction book (1995) -
In this stone sarcophagus, deep in the bowels of the earth, he buried his creature, his creation, in a passage, in an ancient vault of the family burial place.
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In Metairie Cemetery, the Carcassonnes had a pompous family vault with walls and a roof of granite and a green bronze lady.
Fiction book (1998) -
The ancient tomb was accessed through a narrow passage leading to the family vault.
Synonyms
235
3.0
A large stone building or underground room where people put a dead person
51
7.6
An underground room beneath a church used to bury people
25
7.5
A large building where important people are buried
5
9.9
A small stone room where a dead person is buried
5
9.9
A place or box that holds the bones of dead people
4
6.3
A room under the ground that holds a dead body
2
9.1
A tomb built to hold the body of an important person
1
7.9
An underground space for burying a coffin that protects it and holds family coffins
1
9.9
A building that holds bodies or bones of the dead
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9.9
A building where dead bodies or bones are kept
1
9.9
A place with small spaces in the walls for holding urns with ashes
A room under a church used for burials or quiet prayer
A building near a church where people's bones are kept
Antonyms
Compounds
10
3.5
A strong, secure room in a bank that holds money, valuable things, and important papers
1
7.9
An underground space for burying a coffin that protects it and holds family coffins
- Specialized
An arched ceiling where two curved sections cross at right angles to form a raised edge
- Specialized
A ceiling of curved stone sections with arched ribs that cross and hold it, often in Gothic churches
How Large
Surface Forms
Etymology
Vault for a burial chamber comes from the same idea of a stone arched room called a vault that protects space under a building, so a burial vault is an underground, protected chamber for keeping the dead.