[krɪpt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an underground room or vault beneath a church, used as a chapel or burial place
(e.g: he is buried in the crypt, directly underneath the top of the cathedral's dome)

- a small tubular gland, pit, or recess


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘cavern’): from Latin crypta, from Greek kruptē ‘a vault’, from kruptos ‘hidden’