| \hahy-puh-JEE-uhm, hip-uh-\ | noun
1. an underground burial chamber.
2. Ancient Architecture. the underground part of a building, as a vault. | | Quotes | All these royal personages are successively named in the inscriptions of the hypogeum, and thus form a supplement, and a valuable confirmation, of the table of Abydos.
-- Sylvanus Urban, "Champollion’s Egyptian Expedition," The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 146, 1829 | | Origin | | Hypogeum comes from the Greek word hypógeion meaning “underground chamber.” It entered English in the early 1700s. | |
