Crypt
11crypt — ► NOUN ▪ an underground room or vault beneath a church, used as a chapel or burial place. ORIGIN Greek krupt a vault , from kruptos hidden …
12crypt — [kript] n. [ME cript < L crypta < Gr kryptē < kryptos, hidden < kryptein, to hide < IE * krubh < base * kru , to pile up, cover > OIr cráu, hut] 1. an underground chamber or vault, as one under the main floor of a church,… …
13crypt- — [kript] combining form CRYPTO : used before a vowel …
14Crypt — This article is about the stone chambers called crypts . For other uses, see Crypt (disambiguation). Crypt of Bayeux Cathedral, France In architecture, a crypt (from the Latin crypta and the Greek κρύπτη, kryptē; meaning concealed, private) is a… …
15crypt — /kript/, n. 1. 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. Anat. a slender pit or recess; a small glandular cavity. [1375 1425 for sense grotto ;… …
16Crypt — In anatomy, a crypt is variously a blind alley, a tube with no exit, a depression, or a pit in an otherwise fairly flat surface. Cryptic in the case of the tonsils refer to the tonsillar crypts which are little pitlike depressions in the tonsils …
17crypt- — combining form or crypto also krypt or krypto Etymology: New Latin, from Greek kryptos 1 …
18crypt — [[t]krɪ̱pt[/t]] crypts N COUNT A crypt is an underground room underneath a church or cathedral. ...people buried in the crypt of an old London church …
19crypt — The chamber beneath the main floor of a church, usually containing graves or relics. It is typically vaulted, and wholly or partly underground. In medieval churches, it was usually under the apse or a chevet. The history of crypt starts with… …
20crypt — UK [krɪpt] / US noun [countable] Word forms crypt : singular crypt plural crypts an underground room where the bodies of dead people are buried, usually under a church …
