hypogeum
Americannoun
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hypogea
plural
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Ancient Architecture. the underground part of a building, as a vault.
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an underground burial chamber.
noun
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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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“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
“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
The hypogeum ascended through a forest of weathered stone columns, into the middle of a ruined coliseum.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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
The wooden planks began to disappear, spilling sand into the pits of the hypogeum below.
From "The Mark of Athena" 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
He would not deign to examine even the masterpieces of Elephanta, or the mysterious hypogea, concealed southeast from the docks, or those fine remains of Buddhist architecture, the Kanherian grottoes of the island of Salcette.
From Around the World in 80 Days Junior Edition by Jules Verne
One divines instinctively and at once the catacombs, the hypogea and the mummies that lie beneath!
From Egypt (La Mort de Philae) by William Peter Baines
But common sepulchres were usually built below ground, and called hypogea.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 273, September 15, 1827 by Various
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