1. A burial chamber (usually underground)
   - burial vault 
2. A strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables
   - bank vault 
3. An arched brick or stone ceiling or roof 
4. The act of jumping over an obstacle
   - hurdle

1. Jump across or leap over (an obstacle)
   - overleap 
2. Bound vigorously

Sounds like: volt

Derived forms: vaulting, vaults, vaulted

See also: vaulter, vaulting

Type of: bound, burial chamber, jump, jumping, leap, roof, sepulcher [US], sepulchre [Brit, Cdn], sepulture, spring, strongroom [Brit]

Part of: bank, bank building

Encyclopedia: Vault

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