| Main Entry: | crypt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burial place |
Synonyms: |
catacomb, cave, cavern, cell, chamber, compartment, grave, grotto, mausoleum, room, sepulcher, tomb, undercroft, vault |
| Main Entry: | basement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | room on lower floor of building |
Synonyms: |
bottom, cellar, crypt, excavation, furnace room, storage, substructure, subterranean room, underbuilding, understructure, vault |
| Notes: | a cellar is a storage place, usually underground, for foodstuffs etc; basement is the lowest story of a building, part or wholly below ground level |
Antonyms: |
attic |
| Main Entry: | boneyard |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burial ground |
Synonyms: |
God's acre, Golgotha, boot hill, catacomb, cemetery, charnel, charnel house, churchyard, city of the dead, crypt, eternal home, funerary grounds, garden, grave, graveyard, marble town, memorial park, mortuary, necropolis, ossuary, polyandrium, potter's field, resting place, sepulcher, tomb, vault |
| Main Entry: | cell |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small room, container |
Synonyms: |
alcove, antechamber, apartment, bastille, booth, burrow, cage, cavity, chamber, cloister, closet, compartment, coop, crib, crypt, cubicle, den, dungeon, hold, hole, keep, lockup, nook, pen, receptacle, recess, retreat, stall, tower, vault |
| Main Entry: | cemetery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burial ground |
Synonyms: |
God's acre, Golgotha, boot hill, catacomb, charnel, charnel house, churchyard, city of the dead, crypt, eternal home, funerary grounds, garden, grave, graveyard, marble town, memorial park, mortuary, necropolis, ossuary, polyandrium, potter's field, resting place, sepulcher, tomb, vault |
| Main Entry: | grave |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burial place |
Synonyms: |
catacomb, crypt, final resting place, last home, mausoleum, mound, permanent address, place of interment, resting place, sepulcher, shrine, six feet under, tomb, vault |
| Main Entry: | mausoleum |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tomb |
Synonyms: |
burial, burial chamber, burial place, catacomb, cemetery, charnel house, coffin, crypt, grave, monument, sepulcher, vault |
| Main Entry: | necropolis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cemetery |
Synonyms: |
God's acre, boot hill, catacomb, charnel, charnel house, churchyard, city of the dead, crypt, funerary grounds, graveyard, potter's field, sepulcher, tomb, vault |
| Main Entry: | recess |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | niche, corner |
Synonyms: |
alcove, ambush, angle, apse, bay, break, carrel, cavity, cell, closet, cove, cranny, crutch, crypt, cubicle, dent, depression, depths, embrasure, fork, heart, hiding place, hole, hollow, indentation, mouth, nook, opening, oriel, penetralia, reaches, retreat, secret place, slot, socket |
| Main Entry: | tomb |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burial place |
Synonyms: |
box, burial, burial chamber, catacomb, coffin, crypt, grave, mausoleum, monument, pit, sepulcher, trough, vault |