noun
Meaning 1
A cave or cavern.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
crypt
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/kɹɪpt/
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noun
Meaning 2
An underground vault.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
An underground vault.
Especially: one beneath a church that is used as a burial chamber.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Near-synonyms: vault, tomb, sepulchre, sepulcher
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: vault, tomb, sepulchre, sepulcher
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: grave
noun
Meaning 4
A small pit or cavity in the surface of an organ or other structure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
Examples
- Near-synonyms: fovea, fossa
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fovea, fossa
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
Any of the genus Cryptocoryne of aquatic plants of southern and southeastern Asia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 6
Any of the genus Cryptopus of orchids of Madagascar and Mauritius.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 7
a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture
History
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin crypta (“vault”), from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”). Doublet of grotto.
Across languages
Translations
37 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: крипта (kripta) — underground vault
- Bulgarian: подземие (podzemie) — underground vault
- Catalan: cripta — underground vault
- Chinese Mandarin: 隱窩 /隐窝 (yǐnwō) — underground vault
- Chinese Mandarin: 土窖 (tǔjiào) — underground vault
- Chinese Mandarin: 地穴 (dìxué) — underground vault
- Czech: krypta — underground vault
- Danish: krypt — underground vault
- Dutch: krocht — underground vault
- Esperanto: kripto — underground vault
- Finnish: krypta — underground vault
- Finnish: hautakammio — underground vault
- French: crypte — underground vault
- Galician: cripta — underground vault
- German: Krypta — underground vault
- Greek: κρύπτη (krýpti) — underground vault
- Hungarian: kripta — underground vault
- Italian: cripta — underground vault
- Japanese: 納骨堂 (nōkotsudō) — underground vault
- Macedonian: кри́пта (krípta) — underground vault
- Macedonian: гро́бница (gróbnica) — underground vault
- Macedonian: косту́рница (kostúrnica) — underground vault
- Malay: kripta — underground vault
- Persian: دخمه (daxme) — underground vault
- Plautdietsch: Gruft — underground vault
- Polish: krypta — underground vault
- Portuguese: cripta — underground vault
- Romanian: criptă — underground vault
- Russian: кри́пта (krípta) — underground vault
- Russian: усыпа́льница (usypálʹnica) — underground vault
- Russian: склеп (sklep) — underground vault
- Slovak: krypta — underground vault
- Spanish: cripta — underground vault
- Swedish: krypta — underground vault
- Turkish: kripta — underground vault
- Welsh: crypt — underground vault
- Welsh: claddgell — underground vault
Real reading context