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hypogeum
[ hahy-puh-jee-uhm, hip-uh- ]
noun
- Ancient Architecture. the underground part of a building, as a vault.
- an underground burial chamber.
hypogeum
/ ˌhaɪpəˈdʒiːəm /
noun
- an underground vault, esp one used for burials
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Origin of hypogeum1
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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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