Definition of crypt Crypt

/kɹɪˈpt/ - [kript] - crypt

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Noun

Plural: crypts

crypt - a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)
  burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture a chamber that is used as a grave
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • crypt (n.)
    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.
  • crypt (n.)
    A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberk/hn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 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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