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Definition: Crypt |
CryptNoun1. A cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "crypt" was first used: 1667. (references) |
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Computing | Crypt Unix command to perform encryption and decryption. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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Wealthy or prestigious families will often have a "family crypt" in which all members of the family are stored. Many royal families for example, have vast crypts containing the bodies of dozens of former royals.
In some localities an above ground crypt is more commonly called a mausoleum, which also refers to any elaborate building intended as a burial place, for one or any number of people.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Crypt."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ambush | Noun: camouflage; mimicry; hiding place; secret place, secret drawer; recess, hold, holes and corners; closet, crypt, adytum, abditory, oubliette. |
Interment | Grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow house; cemetery, necropolis; burial place, burial ground; grave yard, church yard; God's acre; tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn; ossuary; bone house, charnel house, dead house; morgue; lich gate; burning ghat; crematorium, crematory; dokhma, mastaba, potter's field, stupa, Tower of Silence. |
Receptacle | Compartment; cell, cellule; follicle; hole, corner, niche, recess, nook; crypt, stall, pigeonhole, cove, oriel; cave; (concavity). |
Temple | Chancel, quire, choir, nave, aisle, transept, vestry, crypt, golgotha, calvary, Easter sepulcher; stall, pew; pulpit, ambo, lectern, reading desk, confessional, prothesis, credence, baldachin, baldacchino; apse, belfry; chapter house; presbytery; anxious-bench, anxious-seat; diaconicum, jube; mourner's bench, mourner's seat. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Crypt |
| English words defined with "crypt": Carnary ♦ Undercroft. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "crypt": cbw, Cholera Toxin, Crypt Breakers Workbench ♦ GHOUL ♦ MANAGER, CEMETERY ♦ St. Wilfrid's Needle, superintendent, cemetery ♦ Wilfrid. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "crypt": Undercroft. (references) |
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Screenplays | He must be hiding in the crypt. (Transformers; writing credit: George Arthur Bloom; Doug Booth) See to the crypt, will you? (House of Usher; writing credit: Richard Matheson; Edgar Allan Poe) You pay your American Express with your Discover, your Discover with your Visa, your Visa with your Mastercard. Before they catch up with you, you're buried in a glorious crypt in Bel-Air! (The Naked Truth; writing credit: Scott Bank; Jenny Banks) | |
Lyrics | Must surely have turned in its crypt. (Clementine; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Crypt of the Living Dead (1973) Tales from the Crypt (1972) | |
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 | Marble statue of three suffragists by Adelaide Johnson in the Capitol crypt, Washington, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Immaculate Conception Seminary, Huntington, Long Island. Crypt I. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GHOUL, n. A demon addicted to the reprehensible habit of devouring the dead. The existence of ghouls has been disputed by that class of controversialists who are more concerned to deprive the world of comforting beliefs than to give it anything good in their place. In 1640 Father Secchi saw one in a cemetery near Florence and frightened it away with the sign of the cross. He describes it as gifted with many heads an an uncommon allowance of limbs, and he saw it in more than one place at a time. The good man was coming away from dinner at the time and explains that if he had not been "heavy with eating" he would have seized the demon at all hazards. Atholston relates that a ghoul was caught by some sturdy peasants in a churchyard at Sudbury and ducked in a horsepond. (He appears to think that so distinguished a criminal should have been ducked in a tank of rosewater.) The water turned at once to blood "and so contynues unto ys daye." The pond has since been bled with a ditch. As late as the beginning of the fourteenth century a ghoul was cornered in the crypt of the cathedral at Amiens and the whole population surrounded the place. Twenty armed men with a priest at their head, bearing a crucifix, entered and captured the ghoul, which, thinking to escape by the stratagem, had transformed itself to the semblance of a well known citizen, but was nevertheless hanged, drawn and quartered in the midst of hideous popular orgies. The citizen whose shape the demon had assumed was so affected by the sinister occurrence that he never again showed himself in Amiens and his fate remains a mystery. |
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| "Crypt" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.71% of the time. "Crypt" is used about 341 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.71% | 340 | 15,535 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 341 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "crypt": crypt Breakers Workbench. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "crypt": crypt-room, crypt-rooms. | |
Ending with "crypt": ring-crypt. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "crypt"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | dhomë e nëndheshme (dungeon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سرداب (cellar, passages, vault), الجريب تجويف. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | крипта (undercroft), гробница (bone-yard, feretory, monument, ossuary, sepulchre, tomb, vault), подземие (vault). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 土窖. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | krypta (undercroft, vault), hrobka (sepulcher, tomb, vault). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | lakune (lacuna), krypt (crypta), hvaelving (dome, hood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | crypta (crypta). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | حفره غده ای , غار (Cave, Cavern, Den, Grotto, Vault), سری (Esoteric, Occult, Undercover), سردابه (Vault), رمز (Cipher, Code, Cranny, Enigma, Mystery, Secret, Symbol, Token, Trick), دخمه . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hautakappeli (cemetery chapel, mortuary), hautaholvi (tomb, vault). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | crypte (crypta). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Crypta (crypta), Krypte (crypta), krypta, gruft (grave, tomb, vault), grabgewölbe (vault). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κρύπτη (cache, hiding place, vault). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | כוך (alcove, niche, pit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | altemplom. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | ruang bawah tanah (basement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cripta (vault). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 納骨 (charnel house). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | のう"つどう (charnel house). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | "호 (Cipher, Cryptogram, password). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cabbal fo halloo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yptcray cripta (undercroft). (various references) criptã (vault). (various references) склеп (burial vault, charnel house, charnel-house, ossuary, repository, vault). (various references) kripta (cist, undercroft), grobnica (mausoleum, repository, sepulchre, sepulture, tomb, vault). (various references) cripta (vault). (various references) krypta, gravvalv (tomb), gravkor. (various references) kilise bodrumu, eskiden ölülerin gömüldüğü kilise mahzeni. (various references) склеп (ossuary, repository, sepulchre, shroud), підземна каплиця. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | crypta. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "crypt": cryptal, cryptanalyses, cryptanalysis, cryptanalyst, cryptanalysts, cryptanalytic, cryptanalytical, cryptarithm, cryptarithms, cryptic, cryptically, crypto, cryptococcal, cryptococci, cryptococcoses, cryptococcosis, cryptococcus, cryptocrystalline, cryptogam, cryptogamic, cryptogamous, cryptogams, cryptogenic, cryptogram, cryptograms, cryptograph, cryptographer, cryptographers, cryptographic, cryptographically, cryptographies, cryptographs, cryptography, cryptologic, cryptological, cryptologies, cryptologist, cryptologists, cryptology, cryptomeria, cryptomerias, cryptonym, cryptonyms, cryptorchid, cryptorchidism, cryptorchidisms, cryptorchids, cryptorchism, cryptorchisms, cryptos, cryptozoologies. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "crypt": decrypt, encrypt. (additional references) | |
Words containing "crypt": decrypted, decrypting, decryption, decryptions, decrypts, encrypted, encrypting, encryption, encryptions, encrypts, procryptic. (additional references) | |
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"Crypt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cript, cripto, crit, cropt, Cruyft, cryp, crype, crypit, cryps, crytp, erypt, scypt, trypt. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "crypt" (pronounced kri"pt) |
| 5 | k r i" p t | encrypt, nondescript, script. |
| 4 | -r i" p t | dripped, gripped, outstripped, ripped, stripped, tripped. |
| 3 | -i" p t | chipped, clipped, dipped, equipped, flipped, gypped, lipped, nipped, quipped, shipped, sipped, skipped, slipped, tipped, unzipped, whipped, zipped. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-p-r-t-y" | |
-2 letters: cry, pry, try. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-p-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: crypto, crypts. | |
+2 letters: cryptal, cryptic, cryptos, decrypt, encrypt, pyretic, pyritic, tryptic. | |
+3 letters: apyretic, calypter, calyptra, cerotype, decrypts, encrypts, rapacity, triptyca, triptych. | |
+4 letters: archetype, byproduct, calypters, calyptras, carpentry, cerotypes, champerty, copyright, corruptly, cryptogam, cryptonym, cystocarp, decrypted, encrypted, eurytopic, heptarchy, hypocrite, paralytic, pentarchy, perfectly, piscatory, placatory, precatory, precocity, predacity, pyrolytic, sporocyst, supercity, sympatric, triptycas, triptychs, upcountry. | |
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