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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church);


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Crypt \Crypt\ (kr[i^]pt), n. [L. crypta vault, crypt, Gr. kry`pth, fr. kry`ptein to hide. See Grot, Grotto.] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] Priesthood works out its task age after age, . . . treasuring in convents and crypts the few fossils of antique learning. --Motley. [1913 Webster] My knees are bowed in crypt and shrine. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 2. (Anat.) A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberk["u]hn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

crypt n 1: a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):

crypt Unix command to perform encryption and decryption.