crypt Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)

L. crypta vault, crypt, Gr. , fr. to hide. See Crot, Crotto.

A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory.
Priesthood works out its task age after age, . . . treasuring in convents and crypts the few fossils of antique learning. Motley.

My knees are bowed in crypt and shrine. Tennyson.
(Anat.) A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the cryps of Lieberkhn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines.