Catacomb

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An underground cemetery consisting of chambers or tunnels with recesses for graves. Often used in the plural.
  • n. An underground, often labyrinthine passageway.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An underground system of tunnels and chambers with recesses for graves, used (in former times) as a cemetery; a subterranean tunnel system used for burying the dead, as in Paris or ancient Rome.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A cave, grotto, or subterraneous place of large extent used for the burial of the dead; -- commonly in the plural.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Originally, the name of a locality near Rome, the “Hollows,” in which the church of St. Sebastian, with extensive burial-vaults, was built; but afterward applied to the vaults themselves, and to similar underground burial-places.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an underground tunnel with recesses where bodies were buried (as in ancient Rome)
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    tunnel   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    undercroft    papyri    leafiness    rousette    peristalsis   
     
    Disclaimer: This site has been created by RJ Softwares and is part of the Lexulous & Wordscraper games.