Crypt
noun
An underground room used mostly for placing the bodies of dead people.
His body was interred in the family crypt.
Often appears as...
- family crypt
- church crypt
noun
A room or compartment, often built underground, used for storage or shelter.
The castle's crypt has been used as a wine cellar.
Often appears as...
- cellar crypt
- storage crypt
noun
A tiny part of a human or animal body where tissue forms.
The surgery targeted the crypts of the tonsils.
Often appears as...
- tonsil crypt
- crypt abscess
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
noun
An underground room used mostly for placing the bodies of dead people.
His body was interred in the family crypt.
Often appears as...
- family crypt
- church crypt
noun
A room or compartment, often built underground, used for storage or shelter.
The castle's crypt has been used as a wine cellar.
Often appears as...
- cellar crypt
- storage crypt
noun
A tiny part of a human or animal body where tissue forms.
The surgery targeted the crypts of the tonsils.
Often appears as...
- tonsil crypt
- crypt abscess
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Mortuary Context
Crypts are associated with death and burial, often found beneath churches.
The ancient crypt below the cathedral holds centuries of history.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Significance
Crypts can reflect the status of individuals or families from the past.
Nobility were commonly buried in elaborate family crypts.
Pro Tip 3/3Quiet Reverence
Discussing crypts often requires a respectful and somber tone due to their association with death.
She spoke softly when she mentioned visiting her grandfather's crypt.
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Cory Richards: Pushing...
We were looking for human remains, and we found plenty. We were looking for burial crypts, because we needed the strontium. The strontium is in your tooth enamel. It's an element. It can tell you where somebody's born, based on what's in their mother's breast milk, the water we drink.
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After the Avalanche:...
and you do that with everybody in the burial crypt, well, all of a sudden, you're painting a very real picture about human migration and trade, and this is the story of our human family. This is why this matters. We're connecting the pieces, and what's so important about that,
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Discovering Wildlife in...
Beautiful! So they're not actually super rare, but because they only tend to live in dark, damp locations, We don't really see them very often. So places like caves. Hence, the name, also sewers. and apparently crypts.
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The Secrets of El...
kings watched countless humans sacrificed to the rain god Chaac at this nearby altar. Could their remains lie in the veiled crypt below? KENNY Those are the original insets? Is that jade? This is jade.
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Living Among the Dead PIPE...
he turned an aboveground tomb into a two-story house few people would want to do their laundry only feet away from a corpse and a crypt or brush their teeth on top of a gravestone there's even an
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Safari Live - Day 69 PIPE...
lying down over there and she hasn't crypt all that much closer William from Australia you say that you are loving this broadcast well I'm really glad that we could share it with you William
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Life Among the Dead PIPE...
years Mario's lease agreement is one few Westerners would want to sign take care of a crypt and its corpses and you can move in with them for free and in turn his family has a place to live
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Fighting injustice with...
their crypts fading away from lack of love I met people who were caged or chemically restrained with harmful medication I saw adults and babies who
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Mapping a Mayan Crypt PIPE...
It feels like I'm inside the center of a mountain. And yet, here are these crypts. Somebody's life was lived, and then
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Underground Templar...
The secret chambers, a medieval knights' crypt. Nuts. ALBERT We've established that this was a Templar building,
Video examples
Cory Richards: Pushing...
We were looking for human remains, and we found plenty. We were looking for burial crypts, because we needed the strontium. The strontium is in your tooth enamel. It's an element. It can tell you where somebody's born, based on what's in their mother's breast milk, the water we drink.
Video examples
After the Avalanche:...
and you do that with everybody in the burial crypt, well, all of a sudden, you're painting a very real picture about human migration and trade, and this is the story of our human family. This is why this matters. We're connecting the pieces, and what's so important about that,
Video examples
Discovering Wildlife in...
Beautiful! So they're not actually super rare, but because they only tend to live in dark, damp locations, We don't really see them very often. So places like caves. Hence, the name, also sewers. and apparently crypts.
Video examples
The Secrets of El...
kings watched countless humans sacrificed to the rain god Chaac at this nearby altar. Could their remains lie in the veiled crypt below? KENNY Those are the original insets? Is that jade? This is jade.
Video examples
Living Among the Dead PIPE...
he turned an aboveground tomb into a two-story house few people would want to do their laundry only feet away from a corpse and a crypt or brush their teeth on top of a gravestone there's even an
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 69 PIPE...
lying down over there and she hasn't crypt all that much closer William from Australia you say that you are loving this broadcast well I'm really glad that we could share it with you William
Video examples
Life Among the Dead PIPE...
years Mario's lease agreement is one few Westerners would want to sign take care of a crypt and its corpses and you can move in with them for free and in turn his family has a place to live
Video examples
Fighting injustice with...
their crypts fading away from lack of love I met people who were caged or chemically restrained with harmful medication I saw adults and babies who
Video examples
Mapping a Mayan Crypt PIPE...
It feels like I'm inside the center of a mountain. And yet, here are these crypts. Somebody's life was lived, and then
Video examples
Underground Templar...
The secret chambers, a medieval knights' crypt. Nuts. ALBERT We've established that this was a Templar building,
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Quote examples
William Sadler
American Actor
People quote lines to me all the time. I'm always surprised - everybody has a favorite movie, and they're always different. I'm always shocked. People stop me on the street and throw lines at me from 'Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight' and 'Deep Space Nine.' 'Shawshank' happens a lot because they play it so much on TV.
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Richard Matheson
American Author
I wrote about real people and real circumstances and real neighborhoods. There was no crypt or castles or H.P. Lovecraft-type environments. They were just about normal people who had something bizarre happening to them in the neighborhood.
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Bradley Chicho
English Poet
Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards.
Quote examples
William Sadler
American Actor
People quote lines to me all the time. I'm always surprised - everybody has a favorite movie, and they're always different. I'm always shocked. People stop me on the street and throw lines at me from 'Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight' and 'Deep Space Nine.' 'Shawshank' happens a lot because they play it so much on TV.
Quote examples
Richard Matheson
American Author
I wrote about real people and real circumstances and real neighborhoods. There was no crypt or castles or H.P. Lovecraft-type environments. They were just about normal people who had something bizarre happening to them in the neighborhood.
Quote examples
Bradley Chicho
English Poet
Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards.
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