What does vault mean?
Word: Vault
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Vault means a room with thick walls and a strong door, where money or precious things are kept safe. It can also mean a high curved roof, or a jump made with the hands or a pole.
How do you spell vault?
Syllables: vault
Tricky part: The vowel sound is spelt au, as in fault, not o or aw. Students who write by sound often get it wrong.
Watch out for: vawlt, vallt
Memory tip: A vault holds valuables, and both begin with va.
Vault in a sentence
Example 1: The bank keeps its gold in a vault deep below the ground.
Example 2: We looked up at the painted vault of the old palace hall.
Example 3: We watched the pole vault final on television and cheered every clear jump.
Fun Fact
In the pole vault, athletes use a long, bendy pole to lift themselves over a bar; Sweden's Armand Duplantis has broken the men's world record many times since 2020.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
vaullt
a) u
b) l
c) a
d) t
Show answer
b) l. Like salt and halt, the word has a single l before its last letter.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) daugter
b) laundary
c) vault
d) sausege
Show answer
c) vault. Sausage has an a in its second part, laundry has no vowel between the d and the r, and daughter has gh.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
tvalu
a) adult
b) fault
c) value
d) vault
Show answer
d) vault. Fault needs an f, value needs an e, and adult needs a d.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word:
vault
a) porch
b) balcony
c) attic
d) strongroom
Show answer
d) strongroom. A strongroom is built to keep valuables safe; an attic, porch and balcony are ordinary parts of a house.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Why would a museum keep its rarest coins in a vault?
a) to sell them more quickly
b) to let the sun shine on them
c) to keep them safe and secure
d) to make them easier to clean
Show answer
c) to keep them safe and secure
2. In gymnastics, what does a gymnast do in a vault?
a) balances on one foot on a beam
b) climbs a rope to the ceiling
c) springs over a box using the hands
d) spins on the floor to music
Show answer
c) springs over a box using the hands
