VAULTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vaulted mean? 

• VAULTED (adjective)
  The adjective VAULTED has 1 sense:

1. having a hemispherical vault or dome

  Familiarity information: VAULTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VAULTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a hemispherical vault or dome

Synonyms:

domed; vaulted

Similar:

rounded (curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged)

 Context examples 

In repassing through the small vaulted room, however, your eyes will be attracted towards a large, old-fashioned cabinet of ebony and gold, which, though narrowly examining the furniture before, you had passed unnoticed.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The king’s kitchen is indeed a noble building, vaulted at top, and about six hundred feet high.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Once I got a fright, for, seeing Lord Godalming suddenly turn and look out of the vaulted door into the dark passage beyond, I looked too, and for an instant my heart stood still.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Of animal life there was no movement amid the majestic vaulted aisles which stretched from us as we walked, but a constant movement far above our heads told of that multitudinous world of snake and monkey, bird and sloth, which lived in the sunshine, and looked down in wonder at our tiny, dark, stumbling figures in the obscure depths immeasurably below them.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No, no, you will proceed into this small vaulted room, and through this into several others, without perceiving anything very remarkable in either.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

After a very short search, you will discover a division in the tapestry so artfully constructed as to defy the minutest inspection, and on opening it, a door will immediately appear—which door, being only secured by massy bars and a padlock, you will, after a few efforts, succeed in opening—and, with your lamp in your hand, will pass through it into a small vaulted room.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)