crypt
/kɹɪpt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.10 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An underground vault.
noun
An underground vault.
noun
Any of the genus Cryptocoryne of aquatic plants of southern and southeastern Asia.
noun
Any of the genus Cryptopus of orchids of Madagascar and Mauritius.
Example Sentences
- "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 crypt of the church, the bodies being transferred [...]. Therefore St Mary Woolnoth doesn't have a crypt. Or you could say that its crypt is Bank station."
- "Near-synonyms: fovea, fossa"
- "Sometimes, too much foreign material can get caught in the crypts, leading to frequent infections."
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin crypta (“vault”), from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”). Doublet of grotto.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: κρυπτός