Usually means: Secure storage for valuable items.
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We found 52 dictionaries that define the word vault:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. vault: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. vault, vault: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. vault, vault: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. vault: Collins English Dictionary
  5. vault: Vocabulary.com
  6. Vault, vault: Wordnik
  7. vault: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. vault: Wiktionary
  9. vault: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. vault: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. vault: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. vault: Dictionary.com
  13. vault (n.), vault (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. vault: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Vault (Ashanti album), The Vault (Coffee Shop), The Vault (Too Short album), The Vault (film), The Vault (game show), The Vault (novel), The vault, Vault (architecture), Vault (comics), Vault (drink), Vault (gymnastics), Vault (organelle), Vault (revision control system), Vault (sculpture), Vault (soft drink), Vault (urban movement), Vault (version control system), Vault: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Vault: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. vault: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. vault: Rhymezone
  19. vault: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. vault: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. vault: Free Dictionary
  22. vault: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. vault: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. vault: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. vault: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. vault: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. VAULT: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Vault (disambiguation), vault: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  4. Death and Funeral Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Vault (disambiguation), vault: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Vault (disambiguation), vault: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. vault: The Limited Encyclopedia of Grave Terminology
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Vault: Castle Terms
  4. VAULT: Acronym Finder
  5. vault: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Vault: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. vault: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Vault: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Vault: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See vaulted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  An arched masonry structure supporting and forming a ceiling, whether freestanding or forming part of a larger building.
noun:  Any arched ceiling or roof.
noun:  (figuratively) Anything resembling such a downward-facing concave structure, particularly the sky and caves.
noun:  The space covered by an arched roof, particularly underground rooms and (Christianity, obsolete) church crypts.
noun:  Any cellar or underground storeroom.
noun:  Any burial chamber, particularly those underground.
noun:  The secure room or rooms in or below a bank used to store currency and other valuables; similar rooms in other settings.
noun:  (often figurative) Any archive of past content.
noun:  (computing) An encrypted digital archive.
noun:  (obsolete) An underground or covered conduit for water or waste; a drain; a sewer.
noun:  (obsolete) An underground or covered reservoir for water or waste; a cistern; a cesspit.
noun:  (obsolete, euphemistic) A room employing a cesspit or sewer: an outhouse; a lavatory.
verb:  (transitive) To build as, or cover with a vault.
verb:  (video games) To remove (an item, character, etc.) from a video game in an update.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To jump or leap over with a hand and/or foot on the item for support.
noun:  An act of vaulting, formerly (chiefly) by deer; a leap or jump.
noun:  (gymnastics) A piece of apparatus used for performing jumps.
noun:  (gymnastics) A gymnastic movement performed on this apparatus.
noun:  (equestrianism) Synonym of volte: a circular movement by the horse.
noun:  (gymnastics) An event or performance involving a vaulting horse.

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