Definitions for vaulted

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vaulted vault·ed

Spelling: [vawl-tid]

IPA: /ˈvɔl tɪd/

Vaulted is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 178 anagrams from letters in vaulted (adeltuv).

Definitions for vaulted

noun

1. an arched structure, usually made of stones, concrete, or bricks, forming a ceiling or roof over a hall, room, sewer, or other wholly or partially enclosed construction.
2. an arched structure resembling a vault.
3. a space, chamber, or passage enclosed by a vault or vaultlike structure, especially one located underground.
4. an underground chamber, as a cellar or a division of a cellar.
5. a room or compartment, often built of or lined with steel, reserved for the storage and safekeeping of valuables, especially such a place in a bank.
6. a strong metal cabinet, usually fireproof and burglarproof, for the storage and safekeeping of valuables, important papers, etc.
7. a burial chamber.
8. Anatomy. an arched roof of a cavity.
9. something likened to an arched roof:
10. the act of vaulting.
11. a leap of a horse; curvet.
12. Gymnastics. a running jump over a vaulting horse or pommel horse, usually finishing with an acrobatic dismount.

adjective

1. constructed or covered with a vault, as a building or chamber.
2. provided with a vault.
3. resembling a vault:

verb (used with object)

1. to construct or cover with a vault.
2. to make in the form of a vault; arch.
3. to extend or stretch over in the manner of an arch; overarch:
4. to store in a vault:
5. to leap over:
6. to cause to leap over or surpass others:

verb (used without object)

1. to curve or bend in the form of a vault.
2. to leap or spring, as to or from a position or over something:
3. to leap with the hands supported by something, as by a horizontal pole.
4. Gymnastics. to leap over a vaulting horse or pommel horse, using the hands for pushing off.
5. to arrive at or achieve something as if by a spring or leap:

Origin of vaulted

First recorded in 1525-35; vault¹ + -ed²

Examples for vaulted

Presently Duncan came crashing through the wood and vaulted the wall.

A ripping crash like the crackle of lightning in the vaulted room!

The people faded away, the arches, the vaulted roof vanished.

The dugout was covered with semi-circular sheets of corrugated iron, forming a vaulted roof.

We go into the court-yard through a vaulted archway on the eastern side.

But how many of us, thus sunk in despair, have not been vaulted back to equilibrium by another look at Groundhog Day?

Then, with an agility quite remarkable, he vaulted into the saddle.

Entering the theater brings visitors to an ornate lobby with vaulted ceilings, golden walls, and an enormous chandelier.

He was a Rorschach test, vaulted into the presidency by positive perceptions and unrealistic expectations.

"Amalia," shouted Olivo, so loudly that the vaulted ceiling rang.