hypogeum
Americannoun
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Ancient Architecture. the underground part of a building, as a vault.
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an underground burial chamber.
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Etymology
Origin of hypogeum
1700–10; < Latin hypogēum < Greek hypógeion underground chamber (neuter of hypógeios underground), equivalent to hypo- hypo- + gê earth + -ion neuter adj. suffix
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Ever since his trip beneath Rome with Piper and Percy, fighting those twin giants in the hypogeum under the Colosseum, most of his nightmares were about basements, trapdoors, and large hamster wheels.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
“You’re a Roman demigod, aren’t you? You should know! Ah, but I suppose if we do our job right down here in the underworks, you really wouldn’t know the hypogeum exists.”
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
The wooden planks began to disappear, spilling sand into the pits of the hypogeum below.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
“Now we have to hurry,” said the Big F. “We should go through your stage directions. The hypogeum is all set!”
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
She still had nightmares about the nymphaeum and the hypogeum under Rome.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
Arachidic acid is derived from Arachis hypogea, the scientific name for groundnuts or peanuts.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
For years archaeologists have debated whether the dual-level labyrinth of chambers beneath the Colosseum arena known as the hypogea support or disprove the notion that aquatic displays were staged in the arena.
From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2016
It figures continually in the sepulchral paintings on the walls of the hypogea of Thebes, and it announces the second birth of the soul to the future eternal life.
From Scarabs The History, Manufacture and Symbolism of the Scarabæus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc. by Myer, Isaac
And around were a number of temples, of hypogea, of Roman ruins, of ruins of churches dating from the first centuries of Christianity.
From Egypt (La Mort de Philae) by Baines, William Peter
The thousand little cupolas of saints of Islam are crumbling side by side with the Christian obelisks of the first centuries; and, underneath, the Pharaonic hypogea.
From Egypt (La Mort de Philae) by Baines, William Peter
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