Dictionary Entry
vault
vault is a 5-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 16 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy.
- 2noun
An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, use for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the like; a cell; a cellar.
- 3noun
The canopy of heaven; the sky.
- 4noun
A leap or bound.
- 5noun
The bound or leap of a horse; a curvet.
- 6noun
A leap by aid of the hands, or of a pole, springboard, or the like.
- 7transitive verb
To form with a vault, or to cover with a vault; to give the shape of an arch to; to arch; as, vault a roof; to vault a passage to a court.
- 8intransitive verb
To leap over; esp., to leap over by aid of the hands or a pole; as, to vault a fence.
- 9noun
To leap; to bound; to jump; to spring.
- 10noun
To exhibit feats of tumbling or leaping; to tumble.
- 11noun
the act of jumping over an obstacle
Synonyms
- 12noun
an arched brick or stone ceiling or roof
- 13noun
a burial chamber (usually underground)
- 14noun
a strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables
- 15verb
bound vigorously
- 16verb
jump across or leap over (an obstacle)
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