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Definition of 'Crypt'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) crypt
a subterranean chamber or vault, esp. one beneath the main floor of a church, used as a burial place, a location for secret meetings, etc.

2.  crypt
Anat.

3.  crypt
any recess or depression.

4.  crypt
a small glandular cavity.

Etymology: (1555–65; < L crypta < Gk kryptē hidden place, n. use of fem. of kryptós hidden, v. adj. of krýptein to hide)

Definition of 'Crypt'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) crypt
a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)

Definition of 'Crypt'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Crypt
a vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory

2. (noun) Crypt
a simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberk/hn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines

Translation of 'Crypt'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a room under a church, used for burying people.
Afrikaans: kelder, grafkelder	Arabic: سِرداب، ديماس، قَبْو تَحت	Bulgarian: подземие
Brazilian: cripta	Czech: krypta	German: die Krypta
Danish: krypt; gravhvælving	Greek: κρύπτη	Spanish: cripta
Estonian: krüpt	Farsi: سردابۀ کلیسا	Finnish: krypta
French: crypte	Hebrew: חֶדֶר תַת-קַרקָעִי	Hindi: तहखाना
Croatian: kripta	Hungarian: altemplom	Indonesian: kapel bawah tanah
Icelandic: (graf)hvelfing	Italian: cripta	Japanese: 教会の地下室
Korean: 성당 지하실	Lithuanian: kripta	Latvian: kapenes (zem baznīcas)
Malay: bilik bawah gereja	Dutch: crypt	Norwegian: krypt
Polish: krypta	Persian: سردابۀ کلیسا	Pashto: سمڅی یا زیر زمینی خصوصاْ
Portuguese: cripta	Romanian: criptă	Russian: подземная часовня
Slovak: krypta	Slovenian: kripta	Serbian: kripta
Swedish: krypta	Thai: ห้องใต้ดินในโบสถ์	Turkish: mahzen mezar
Taiwanese: 教堂地下室	Ukrainian: склеп	Urdu: ت‍ہ خان‍ہ
Vietnamese: hầm mộ	Chinese: 教堂地下室
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