Synonyms for vault
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Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 3 votes

1. vault, burial vaultnoun

   a burial chamber (usually underground)

   Synonyms:
   hurdle, bank vault, burial vault

2. vault, bank vaultnoun

   a strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables

   Synonyms:
   hurdle, bank vault, burial vault

3. vaultnoun

   an arched brick or stone ceiling or roof

   Synonyms:
   hurdle, bank vault, burial vault

4. vault, hurdleverb

   the act of jumping over an obstacle

   Synonyms:
   hurdle, bank vault, burial vault

5. vault, overleapverb

   jump across or leap over (an obstacle)

   Synonyms:
   drop, omit, overlook, neglect, pretermit, overleap, miss, leave out

6. vaultverb

   bound vigorously

   Synonyms:
   overleap

Matched Categories

1. • Burial Chamber
   • Jump
   • Roof
   • Strongroom

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. vaultnoun

   Synonyms:
   arched ceiling, arched roof, continued arch

2. vaultnoun

   Synonyms:
   cell, cellar, cavity

3. vaultnoun

   Synonyms:
   tomb, crypt, catacomb

4. vaultnoun

   Synonyms:
   leap, bound, jump

5. vaultverb

   Synonyms:
   arch, cover with an arch, arch over

6. vaultverb

   Synonyms:
   leap, bound, jump, spring, CAPER

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. vaultnoun

   Synonyms:
   crypt, tomb, catacomb, ossuarium

2. vaultverb

   Synonyms:
   leap over, spring, bound, jump, tumble

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1. List of paraphrases for "vault":

   vaulting, trunk, crypt, safe, chest, powervault, arch, jump

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How to use vault in a sentence?

1. Larry Stewart:

   Like the Huntington Bank robbery, the State Bank robberies involved a man wearing a ski mask who took over the entire bank, neutralized personnel, and accessed monies, which were held in the vault or safe.

2. Caon City principal Bret Meuli:

   A tip led to a couple more names, an interview led to a couple more. At one point it was,' Well, everybody is doing this, ’ of course, we didn't believe them up front and the more we looked, the more we said,' You know, hey, we have to turn this over to the PD. This is deeper than us. ’ The school’s investigation revealed students were sharing explicit photos of each other and storing them on hidden photo vault apps, disguised as other applications.

3. Dylan Thomas:

   From my point of view the worst thing would be for it to end up in the hands of a private collector who locks it up in a bank vault for 50 years, it was hard to keep my hands off it -- I just want to pore through it, to be able to read every word in his crabbed, backwards-sloping hand -- it is such a covetable object.

4. Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Ninth, Chapter 2:

   She had fortunately always her appetite for news. The pure flame of the disinterested burned in her cave of treasures as a lamp in a Byzantine vault.

5. Pierpaolo Campostrini:

   If the crypt becomes a swimming pool, we'll face an unknown situation, the salt could cause a collapse of the vault, a risk that nobody wants to take.