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hypogeum

[ hahy-puh-jee-uhm, hip-uh- ]

noun

, plural hy·po·ge·a [hahy-p, uh, -, jee, -, uh, hip-, uh, -].
  1. Ancient Architecture. the underground part of a building, as a vault.
  2. an underground burial chamber.


hypogeum

/ ˌhaɪpəˈdʒiːəm /

noun

  1. an underground vault, esp one used for burials
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of hypogeum1

1700–10; < Latin hypogēum < Greek hypógeion underground chamber (neuter of hypógeios underground), equivalent to hypo- hypo- + earth + -ion neuter adj. suffix
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hypogeum1

C18: from Latin, from Greek hupogeion; see hypogeal
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Example Sentences

Verily you would think that the painter of these figures of the shades had only just quitted the hypogeum.

We shall call attention, however, to a hypogeum at Gizeh, which is numbered 81 in Lepsius's map of that tomb-field.

Violate the tombs, if she has taken refuge in the abodes of death, far within some passage or hypogeum.

That moment an old man, wearing a hooded mantle but with a bare head, issued from the hypogeum.

Here and there were separate monuments, and in the centre was the entrance to the hypogeum itself, or crypt.

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