About The Word Crypt
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What's The Definition Of Crypt?
[n] a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)
Synonyms | Synonyms for Crypt: Related Terms | Find terms related to Crypt: alveolation | alveolus | ambry | antrum | apse | armpit | baptistery | barrow | basement | basin | beehive tomb | blindstory | bone house | booth | bowl | box | box grave | burial | burial chamber | burial mound | catacomb | catacombs | cave | cavern | cavity | cell | cellar | cellule | cenotaph | chamber | chancel | charnel house | choir | cist | cist grave | cloisters | compartment | concave | concavity | confessional | confessionary | crater | crib | cromlech | cup | deep six | depression | diaconicon | diaconicum | dip | dokhma | dolmen | Easter sepulcher | enclosed space | fold | follicle | funnel chest | grave | grotto | hold | hole | hollow | hollow shell | house of death | lacuna | last home | long home | low green tent | low house | manger | mastaba | mausoleum | monstrance | mummy chamber | narrow house | nave | ossuarium | ossuary | passage grave | pew | pit | pocket | porch | presbytery | punch bowl | pyramid | reliquary | resting place | rood loft | rood stair | rood tower | room | sacrarium | sacristy | scoop | sepulcher | shaft grave | shell | shrine | sink | sinus | socket | stall | stupa | tomb | tope | tower of silence | transept | triforium | trough | tumulus | vault | vestry | vug See Also | burial chamber | sepulcher | sepulchre | sepulture Crypt In Webster's Dictionary \Crypt\ (kr[i^]pt), n. [L. crypta vault, crypt, Gr.
kry`pth, fr. kry`ptein to hide. See {Grot}, {Grotto}.]
1. 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.
Priesthood works out its task age after age, . . .
treasuring in convents and crypts the few fossils of
antique learning. --Motley.
My knees are bowed in crypt and shrine. --Tennyson.
2. (Anat.) A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a
follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberk["u]hn, the simple
tubular glands of the small intestines.
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