Turkish - English
Definition of kriptos in Turkish English dictionary
- crypt
- A small pit or cavity in the body
- a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)
- An underground chamber for relics or tombs See also catacomb Types of crypt: confessio, hall crypt
- An individual chamber within a mausoleum for casket placement
- The lower story [below floor level] of a church, with chapels and sometimes tombs
- {i} underground burial chamber, vault, tomb
- A dry, vented burial chamber for the placement of the casketed body
- An underground vault, especially one beneath a church that is used as a burial place
- from the Greek word «hide» The underground part of a church in which the relics of saints were often hidden
- A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberkühn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines
- The deck of cards containing a player's vampires
- A concrete enclosure for interment Mausoleum crypts are generally above ground and in buildings Crypts in garden mausoleums also are usually above ground but are open to the outside rather than being in an enclosed building Types of crypts are: Mausoleum Crypt - interior; Garden Crypt - exterior; Lawn Crypt - below ground
- 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
- A space in a mausoleum or other building to hold cremated or whole remains
- A vaulted chamber, completely or partially underground, which usually contains a chapel It is found in a church under the choir
- A vault or room used for keeping remains
- a room under the floor of a church where bodies are often buried
- A crypt is an underground room underneath a church or cathedral. people buried in the crypt of an old London church. a room under a church, used in the past for burying people vault (crypta, from , from kryptos; CRYPTO-). Subterranean chamber, usually under a church floor. The catacombs of the early Christians were known as cryptae, and when churches came to be built over the tombs of saints and martyrs, subterranean chapels were built around the actual tomb. As early as the reign of Constantine I (AD 306-37), the crypt was considered a normal part of a church. Later its size was increased to include the entire space beneath the choir or chancel; the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral is an elaborate underground church with its own apse. Many secular medieval European buildings also had richly decorated crypts
Turkish - Turkish
Definition of kriptos in Turkish Turkish dictionary
- Yeraltı kilisesi, gizli kilise