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Mar 25, 2010 This week's theme Loan translations This week's words cloud-cuckoo-land moment of truth bread and circuses God's acre paper tiger Enjoy A.Word.A.Day? Here are ways you can support this work: . Upgrade to premium subs. . Send a gift subscription . Become a sponsor . Buy our books . Contribute Thank you! Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg God's acre PRONUNCIATION: (godz AY-kuhr) MEANING: noun: A cemetery, especially one next to a church. ETYMOLOGY: Loan translation of German Gottesacker, from Gott (God) + Acker (field). The allusion is that the bodies of the dead are sown in the field in hope of resurrection. USAGE: "Mourning strangers also came to weep anniversary tears at another cheerless God's acre." Frank Keating; Ask Not For Whom the Bell Tolls, It Tolls For These; The Guardian (London, UK); Sep 26, 2006. Explore "God's acre" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking. -Wangari Muta Maathai, activist and Nobel laureate (b. 1940)

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