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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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