vault
noun/vɔːlt/
/vɔːlt/
- a room with thick walls and a strong door, especially in a bank, used for keeping valuable things safe
- Most of her jewellery is stored in bank vaults.
- Thieves broke in and took over £2m from the vaults.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- secure
- subterranean
- underground
- …
- keep something in
- store something in
- lock
- …
- in a/the vault
- a room under a church or in a cemetery, used for burying people
- She is to be buried in the family vault.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- burial
- family
- royal
- …
- bury somebody in
- a roof or ceiling in the form of an arch or a series of archesTopics Buildingsc2
- a jump made by vaulting see also pole vault
- (also vaulting horse)a large object with legs, and sometimes handles, that gymnasts use to vault over
Word Originnoun Middle English: from Old French voute, based on Latin volvere ‘to roll’.
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