/kɹɪpt/
OriginLearned borrowing from Latin crypta (“vault”), from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”). Doublet of grotto.
- archaicA cave or cavern.
- An underground vault.
- Especially: one beneath a church that is used as a burial chamber.
“Near-synonyms: vault, tomb, sepulchre, sepulcher”
“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 dolorous crypt of winter.”
“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 the cryp”
- A small pit or cavity in the surface of an organ or other structure.
“Near-synonyms: fovea, fossa”
“Sometimes, too much foreign material can get caught in the crypts, leading to frequent infections.”
- Any of the genus Cryptocoryne of aquatic plants of southern and southeastern Asia.
- Any of the genus Cryptopus of orchids of Madagascar and Mauritius.
Formscrypts(plural)