Definitions
Underground vault or chamber, often used for burials.
Word origin
Learned borrowing from Latin crypta (“vault”), from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”). Doublet of grotto.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“Near-synonyms: fovea, fossa”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Burial vault”5 letters
02“Underground burial chamber”5 letters
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