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with Anu GargGod'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. See more usage examples of God's acre in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. 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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