What is another word for vaults?

Pronunciation: [vˈɒlts] (IPA)

Vaults, a noun that refers to an enclosed space or room used for storage or safekeeping, can be described by a variety of synonyms. Some words that can be used interchangeably with "vaults" include crypts, cellars, chambers, repositories, and safes. Crypts typically refer to underground vaults used for burying the dead, while cellars and repositories are usually used for storing items such as food or documents. Chambers can refer to larger, grander vaults used for events or ceremonies, while safes are specifically designed for the safekeeping of valuable objects. Each of these synonyms brings a slightly different connotation to the word "vaults," but they all share a common focus on storage and security.

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Usage examples for Vaults

One is forcibly reminded of the Green vaults of Dresden while passing through the many sections of Rosenborg Castle.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
A great iron door under very dark vaults.
"Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck"
Jethro Bithell
The horse viciously resented this breach of etiquette and plunged with stiff-legged vaults downward and sideways on the steep incline, throwing his rider over his head.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs

Famous quotes with Vaults

  • Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets.
    William Laud
  • The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.
    Harry Seidler
  • Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge...
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • You must try first to rid your mind of the traditional idea that the gothic is an intentional expression of religious gloom. The necessity for light was the motive of the gothic architects. They needed light and always more light, until they sacrificed safety and common-sense in trying to get it. They converted their walls into windows, raised their vaults, diminished their piers, until their churches could no longer stand.
    Henry Adams
  • Like all great churches, that are not mere store-houses of theology, Chartres expressed, besides whatever else it meant, an emotion, the deepest man ever felt,— the struggle of his own littleness to grasp the infinite. You may, if you like, figure in it a mathematic formula of infinity,— the broken arch, our finite idea of space; the spire, pointing, with its converging lines, to Unity beyond space; the sleepless, restless thrust of the vaults, telling the unsatisfied, incomplete, overstrained effort of man to rival the energy, intelligence and purpose of God. Thomas Aquinas and the schoolmen tried to put it in words, but their church is another chapter. In act, all man's work ends there;— mathematics, physics, chemistry, dynamics, optics, every sort of machinery science may invent,— to this favor come at last, as religion and philosophy did before science was born.
    Henry Adams

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