Vaults Synonyms

The act of jumping over an obstacle
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. springs
  2. hurdles
  3. leaps
  4. jumps
A place for the dead
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. sepulchers
  2. ossuaries
  3. graves
  4. groins
  5. mounds
  6. tumuli
  7. tombs
  8. pits
  9. mausolea
  10. fornices
  11. cineraria
  12. barrows
A place for preserving valuables
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. safes

Words Related to Vaults

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Vaults Sentence Examples

  • In the vaults are buried twenty-six archbishops and electors.

  • The steep sides of the Mbnchsberg rise directly from amidst the houses of the town, some of which have cellars and rooms hewn out of the rock; and the ancient cemetery of St Peter, the oldest in Salzburg, is bounded by a row of vaults cut in the side of the hill.

  • Power is given to prohibit the use as dwellings of any cellars, vaults or underground rooms built or occupied after 1875, and with regard to such cellars as were occupied as dwellings before 1875, the continued occupation of these is also forbidden unless they comply with certain stringent requirements as to the height of the rooms, height of the ceilings above the surface of Cellar .

  • It has a palace, with a chapel and a library, three churches, one of them containing the burial vaults of the princes, several educational establishments, and various small industries such as the manufacture of hosiery, toys, sweetmeats and lamps.

  • Adjoining the priory was St Mary's Benedictine nunnery, St James's church (1792) marking the site, and preserving in its vaults some of the ancient monuments.

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