vault
/vɒlt/
An arched masonry structure supporting and forming a ceiling, whether freestanding or forming part of a larger building; Any arched ceiling or roof; Anything resembling such a downward-facing concave structure, particularly caves and the sky or firmament; The secure room or rooms in or below a bank used to store currency and other valuables
- plural
- vaults
Meanings
- 1
An arched masonry structure supporting and forming a ceiling, whether freestanding or forming part of a larger building
- 2
Any arched ceiling or roof
- 3
Anything resembling such a downward-facing concave structure, particularly caves and the sky or firmament
- 4
The secure room or rooms in or below a bank used to store currency and other valuables; similar rooms in other settings
- 5
The space covered by an arched roof, particularly underground rooms and (Christianity, obsolete) church cryptsrare
- 6
Any cellar or underground storeroomrare
- 7
Any burial chamber, particularly those undergroundrare
- 8
Any archive of past contentrare
- 9
An encrypted digital archiverare
- 10
A membraneless organelle found in most eukaryotic cells first identified in 1986rare