'Crypt' definitions:
Definition of 'crypt'
(from WordNet)
noun
A cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)
Definition of 'Crypt'
From: GCIDE
- Crypt \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. [1913 Webster]
- Priesthood works out its task age after age, . . . treasuring in convents and crypts the few fossils of antique learning. --Motley. [1913 Webster]
- My knees are bowed in crypt and shrine. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'crypt'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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