Vault

Quick meaning: Vault is a noun meaning An arched masonry structure supporting and forming a ceiling, whether freestanding or forming part of a larger building.

Meaning

An arched masonry structure supporting and forming a ceiling, whether freestanding or forming part of a larger building.

More Meanings

1. Any arched ceiling or roof.
2. (figuratively) Anything resembling such a downward-facing concave structure, particularly the sky and caves.
3. The space covered by an arched roof, particularly underground rooms and (Christianity, obsolete) church crypts.
4. Any cellar or underground storeroom.
5. Any burial chamber, particularly those underground.
6. The secure room or rooms in or below a bank used to store currency and other valuables; similar rooms in other settings.
7. (often figurative) Any archive of past content.

Example Sentences

the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault

The stalactites held tightly to the cave's vault.

The ſilent vaults of Death, vnknowne to Light; And Hell it ſelfe, lye naked to his ſight.

God said, ‘Let there be a vault through the middle of the waters to divide the waters in two.’

Word Forms

• vaults
• vaulting
• vaulted

Synonyms for vault

Depending on context, synonyms include bathroom, sepulchre, sepulcher, tomb, crypt, mausoleum.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overleap, hurdle, roof, keystone, arch, cornerstone.

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