English-Spanish translations for vault

• bóveda
  Verdaderamente, el foco de luz de la sana competencia iluminará las oscuras bóvedas de los bancos europeos. Truly the spotlight of healthy competition will fall on the dark vaults of European banks.
• salto
  Lo que seguramente nadie sabe, o pocos saben, es que el Presidente de la República Helénica que hoy nos visita fue campeón de salto con pértiga en su juventud. Something that I am sure nobody knows, or few people know, is that the President of the Hellenic Republic visiting us today was a pole-vaulting champion in his youth.
• saltar

Definition of vault

• An arched masonry structure supporting and forming a ceiling, whether freestanding or forming part of a larger building
• Any arched ceiling or roof
• The space covered by an arched roof, ''particularly'underground rooms and church crypts
• Any burial chamber, ''particularly'those underground
• The secure room or rooms in or below a bank used to store currency and other valuables; similar rooms in other settings
• A piece of apparatus used for performing jumps
• An encrypted digital archive
• An underground or covered reservoir for water or waste; a cistern; a cesspit
• To build as, or cover with a vault
• To jump or leap over
• An act of vaulting, ''formerly' by deer; a leap or jump
• An event or performance involving a vaulting horse

Synonyms

• vaulting table

Examples

• The decoration of the vault of Sainte-Chapelle was much brighter before its 19th-century restoration.
• The stalactites held tightly to the caves vault.
• Family members had been buried in the vault for centuries.
• The bank kept their money safe in a large vault.
• The fugitive vaulted over the fence to escape.

Related words

• vaulting
• vaulted
• pole-vault
• pole-vaulter
• pole-vaulting
• polevaulter
• vault chapel
• vaulting horse
• vaulting box