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Feb 20, 2009 This week's theme Loan translations This week's words fool's gold sword of Damocles mug's game dog's age God's acre 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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