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This week's theme Whose what? This week's words fool's gold sword of damocles mug's game dog's age God's acre Today's word in Visual Thesaurus Next week's theme Words to describe people Roll the dice Get a random word from A.Word.A.Day archives 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. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: To profess to be doing God's will is a form of megalomania. -Joseph Prescott, aphorist (1913-2001)

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