vault

About 2.85 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

   The decoration of the vault of Sainte-Chapelle was much brighter before its 19th-century restoration.

2. noun Any arched ceiling or roof.
3. noun Anything resembling such a downward-facing concave structure, particularly caves and the sky or firmament.

   The stalactites held tightly to the cave's vault.

4. noun The space covered by an arched roof, particularly underground rooms and church crypts.
5. noun Any cellar or underground storeroom.
6. noun Any burial chamber, particularly those underground.

   Family members had been buried in the vault for centuries.

7. noun The secure room or rooms in or below a bank used to store currency and other valuables; similar rooms in other settings.
8. noun Any archive of past content.

Similar words

overleap hurdle bank vault burial vault roof keystone arch cornerstone basement beam

Often followed by

of and in is was at with or to

Word family

vaulted vaultier vaultiest vaulting vaults vaulty