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# The Good Oil Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-good-oil-word-of-the-day-707/
- Published: 2026-07-25T18:15:30.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-25T18:15:29.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, Word of the Day

The word for today is…

crypt (noun) -

1a: a chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground, especially : a vault under the main floor of a church  
b: a chamber in a mausoleum  
2a: an anatomical pit or depression  
b: a simple tubular gland

Source : [Merriam-Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crypt?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Hidden under the main floor of a great church is often a large room, often with a tomb as its centerpiece. Many major European churches were built over the remains of a saint—the Vatican's great St. Peter's Basilica is an example—and instead of having the coffin buried, it was often given its spacious room below ground level. In a large aboveground tomb, or mausoleum, there may be several small chambers for individual coffins, also called crypts; when the comic book Tales from the Crypt made its first appearance in 1950, it was this meaning that the authors were referring to.

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