VAULT
What does "VAULT" mean?
A secure room or compartment for storing valuables, or an arched structure forming a ceiling or roof.
Meanings
- A strong, secure room for storing money, documents, or valuables. The bank's gold sits in a vault three floors down.
- An arched structure of stone or brick forming a ceiling, roof, or underground chamber. The cathedral's ribbed vault soared overhead. technical
- An underground burial chamber. The family was interred in a stone vault.
- To leap or spring over an obstacle, especially using the hands or a pole for support. She vaulted over the fence in one motion.
Did you know?
- The arched 'vault' over your head and the gymnast's 'vault' over the apparatus share one Latin root - 'volvere', to turn or roll - the same word behind 'revolve' and 'volume'.
Word origin
From Old French 'voute' / 'volte' ('arched roof'), from Vulgar Latin 'volvita', from Latin 'volvere' ('to turn, roll'); the leaping sense came via Italian 'voltare' ('to turn'), the same root that gives 'revolve' and 'volume'.
Remember it
VAULT = V (a leaping arc) + AULT - picture a vaulter's body curving like an arched ceiling at the top of the jump; both meanings are that same curve.
A little poem
One vault you build to keep the gold from flight;
the other vault you are, mid-leap, in light.
couplet
What it teaches
The same arch that shelters can also be the thing you leap; strength is in the curve, not the use.
Quick facts
What does VAULT mean?
A secure room or compartment for storing valuables, or an arched structure forming a ceiling or roof.
Is VAULT a valid word?
Yes — VAULT is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is VAULT?
VAULT has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does VAULT come from?
From Old French 'voute' / 'volte' ('arched roof'), from Vulgar Latin 'volvita', from Latin 'volvere' ('to turn, roll'); the leaping sense came via Italian 'voltare' ('to turn'), the same root that gives 'revolve' and 'volume'.
What can VAULT teach us?
The same arch that shelters can also be the thing you leap; strength is in the curve, not the use.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.