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1. A burial chamber (usually underground)
   - burial vault
    
2. A strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables
   - bank vault
    
3. An arched brick or stone ceiling or roof
    
4. The act of jumping over an obstacle
   - hurdle

1. Jump across or leap over (an obstacle)
   - overleap
    
2. Bound vigorously

Sounds like: variance, var, vaul

Derived forms: vaulted, vaulting, vaults

Type of: bound, burial chamber, jump, jumping, leap, roof, sepulcher [US], sepulchre [Brit, Cdn], sepulture [archaic], spring, strongroom [Brit]

Part of: bank, bank building

Encyclopedia: Vault