Catacomb vs. Crypt — What's the Difference?

Often catacombs An underground cemetery consisting of chambers or tunnels with recesses for graves.

A crypt (from Latin crypta "vault") is a stone chamber beneath the floor of a church or other building. It typically contains coffins, sarcophagi, or religious relics.

An underground, often labyrinthine passageway.

An underground vault or chamber, especially one beneath a church that is used as a burial place.

(often plural) An underground system of tunnels and chambers with recesses for graves, used (in former times) as a cemetery; a tunnel system used for burying the dead, as in Paris or Ancient Rome.

(Anatomy) A small pit, recess, or glandular cavity in the body.

A cave, grotto, or subterraneous place of large extent used for the burial of the dead; - commonly in the plural.

A cave or cavern.

An underground tunnel with recesses where bodies were buried (as in ancient Rome)

An underground vault, especially one beneath a church that is used as a burial place.

(anatomy) A small pit or cavity in the surface of an organ or other structure.

(botany) Any of the genus Cryptocoryne of aquatic plants of southern and southeastern Asia.

(botany) Any of the genus Cryptopus of orchids of Madagascar and Mauritius.

A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory.

A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberkühn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines.

A cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)