crypt
noun/krɪpt/
/krɪpt/
- a room under the floor of a church, used especially in the past as a place for burying people
- Nelson’s final resting place was in the crypt of St Paul’s Cathedral.
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘cavern’): from Latin crypta, from Greek kruptē ‘a vault’, from kruptos ‘hidden’.
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