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See also:crypt-and-crypt

English

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Mary Todd Lincoln's crypt

Etymology

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FromLatincrypta(“vault”), fromAncient Greekκρυπτός(kruptós,“hidden”).Doublet ofgrotto.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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crypt (pluralcrypts)

  1. (now rare) Acave orcavern.[from 15th c.]
  2. Anundergroundvault, especially onebeneath achurch that is used as aburial place.[from 16th c.]
    Hypernym:vault
    Holonyms:catacomb,cuniculus
    Coordinate terms:charnel house,mausoleum,ossuary
    • 1922,Michael Arlen, “3/2/1”, in“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎[1]:
      She turned and waved a hand to him, she cried a word, but he didn't hear it, it was a lost word. A sable wraith she was in the parkland, fading away into the dolorouscrypt of winter.
    • 2012, Andrew Martin,Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books,→ISBN, page106:
      On its arrival at Bank, incidentally, the City & South London's directors had threatened to demolish the church of St Mary Woolnoth, but after a public outcry the company built its station in thecrypt of the church, the bodies being transferred [...]. Therefore St Mary Woolnoth doesn't have acrypt. Or you could say that itscrypt is Bank station.
  3. (anatomy) A smallpit orcavity in the surface of anorgan or other structure.[from 19th c.]
    • 2015, Giulia Enders, translated by David Shaw,Gut, Scribe, published2016, page25:
      Sometimes, too much foreign material can get caught in thecrypts, leading to frequent infections.
  4. (botany) Any of the genusCryptocoryne of aquatic plants of southern and southeastern Asia.
  5. (botany) Any of the genusCryptopus of orchids ofMadagascar andMauritius.

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Translations

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underground vault

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