Calvary
noun
Golgotha, the place where Jesus was crucified.
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Calvary
American
[kal-vuh-ree]
/ ˈkæl və ri /
noun
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Calvaries
plural
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Bible. Golgotha, the place where Jesus was crucified.
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Often calvary a sculptured representation of the Crucifixion, usually erected in the open air.
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none calvary an experience or occasion of extreme suffering, especially mental suffering.
Calvary
1
British
/ ˈkælvərɪ /
noun
calvary
2
British
/ ˈkælvərɪ /
noun
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(often capital) a representation of Christ's crucifixion, usually sculptured and in the open air
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any experience involving great suffering
Calvary
Cultural
Pronunciation
See irrelevant.
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Etymology
Origin of Calvary
First recorded before 1000; from Late Latin Calvāria “Calvary,” from Latin calvāria “a skull,” used to translate Greek kraníon cranium, itself a translation of the Aramaic name; see Golgotha
Example Sentences
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He learned his birth mother was buried in a pauper’s grave at the Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Santa Rosa, with “nothing to mark her grave but an upside-down horseshoe that has her name in it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Pioneer Park used to be Calvary cemetery once upon a time.
From Salon ● May 9, 2026
At the site where he was killed in south Minneapolis, close to the Calvary Baptist Church, mourners gathered at all hours to lay flowers and light candles in his honour.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026
At the Calvary Baptist Church in Minneapolis, the doors swung open and shut as locals sought refuge from the biting cold on Sunday.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026
He glanced at the peeling white Calvary Baptist Church up the street from his house.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
And when the calvary arrives in Episode 6 of "The Rings of Power," they do so on horses.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2022
But the calvary also isn’t coming — not yet, anyway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2022
His calvary - his enemies would say "deceit" - goes back to 2006.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2016
“We’re living a calvary here; we are suffering,” said Louisor Zepenge, a student.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2014
Hard by upon the edge of the castle rock was a calvary.
From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Edward Harrison Barker
Dangerous passions of pride, hatred and selfishness are enthroned in our lives; truth lies prostrate on the rugged hills of nameless Calvaries.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only one hand of the Christ there had been burned, and the body hanging on the Cross was unscathed, like so many of those Calvaries which I have seen in shell-fired places.
From From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 by Philip Gibbs
But in those days you used to dance along this endless way of Calvaries, plucking flowers at the feet of the crosses.
From The Road to Damascus by Graham Rawson
The Bretons are commonly accredited as being a most devout race, and certainly devotion could take no more marked turn than the many evidences here to be seen in this "land of Calvaries."
From The Cathedrals of Northern France by Blanche McManus
Perhaps the cheapest Continental tour, of say three weeks, that could be taken, amid a constantly changing environment, if one so choose, would comprehend this land of Calvaries.
From The Cathedrals of Northern France by Blanche McManus
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