What does Crypt mean?
Definitions for Crypt
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Princeton's WordNet
cryptnoun
a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)
Wiktionary
cryptnoun
An underground vault, especially one beneath a church that is used as a burial place.
cryptnoun
A small pit or cavity in the body
Etymology: From crypta, from κρυπτός.
Wikipedia
Crypt
A crypt (from Latin crypta "vault") is a stone chamber beneath the floor of a church or other building. It typically contains coffins, sarcophagi, or religious relics. Originally, crypts were typically found below the main apse of a church, such as at the Abbey of Saint-Germain en Auxerre, but were later located beneath chancel, naves and transepts as well. Occasionally churches were raised high to accommodate a crypt at the ground level, such as St Michael's Church in Hildesheim, Germany.
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A crypt is an underground room or vault beneath a church, used as a chapel or burial place, often where the remains of important people are stored. In a broader sense, crypt can also refer to any place that is considered hidden or secret.
Webster Dictionary
Cryptnoun
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
Cryptnoun
a simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberk/hn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines
Etymology: [L. crypta vault, crypt, Gr. kry`pth, fr. kry`ptein to hide. See Grot, Grotto.]
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Crypt
In architecture, a crypt is a stone chamber or vault beneath the floor of a burial vault possibly containing sarcophagi, coffins or relics. Originally crypts were typically found below the main apse of a church, such as at the Abbey of Saint-Germain en Auxerre, but were later located beneath naves and transepts as well. Occasionally churches were raised high to accommodate a crypt at the ground level, such as St Michael's Church in Hildesheim, Germany.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Crypt
kript, n. an underground cell or chapel, esp. one used for burial.—adjs. Cryp′tic, -al, hidden: secret: unseen. [L. crypta—Gr. kryptē—kryptein, to conceal. Doublet of Grot.]
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The numerical value of Crypt in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
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The numerical value of Crypt in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of Crypt in a Sentence
If the crypt becomes a swimming pool, we'll face an unknown situation, the salt could cause a collapse of the vault, a risk that nobody wants to take.
The water was not supposed to inundate the crypt after work to seal it undertaken in the 1990s. But the tide was so high that the water poured in through the window.
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- крипта, подземиеBulgarian
- criptaCatalan, Valencian
- kryptaCzech
- KryptaGerman
- κρύπτηGreek
- kriptoEsperanto
- criptaSpanish
- دخمهPersian
- kryptaFinnish
- crypteFrench
- cryptIrish
- kriptaHungarian
- criptaItalian
- 納骨堂Japanese
- krochtDutch
- kryptaPolish
- criptaPortuguese
- criptăRomanian
- крипта, склеп, усыпальницаRussian
- kryptaSwedish
- 地穴Chinese
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