Synonyms for vault
- basement
- box
- cellar
- mausoleum
- pit
- safe
- tomb
- can
- catacomb
- cavern
- crib
- crypt
- dungeon
- grave
- repository
- sepulcher
- safe-deposit box
- strong room
Antonyms for vault
EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR VAULT
Only the cashier and Alan Porter knew that it was in the vault.
With that he locked the vault, and returned to the upper air.
Arthur's answer was to put on his hat, and vault away with the paper.
In a vault near that of Kilor's there is a great spool of it.
We found the Regent dressing in the vault he used as his wardrobe.
She saw Lee rise up, and with a hand on one of the hills, vault over it.
But when they go to banquet and festival, then they move up the steep to the top of the vault of heaven.
He saw him vault into the saddle, and he saw him vanish into the adjacent woods.
And into what a heaven—a vault as of hell, sooty black, from which soot descended!
And can he vault among swords, and turn upon a wheel, at his age?
WORD ORIGIN
"arched roof or ceiling," c.1300, vaute, from Old French voute "arch, vaulted roof," from Vulgar Latin *volta, contraction of *volvita, noun use of fem. of *volvitus, alteration of Latin volutus "bowed, arched," past participle of volvere "to turn, turn around, roll" (see volvox). The -l- appeared in English c.1400.