Calvary
noun
Golgotha, the place where Jesus was crucified.
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Calvary
American
[kal-vuh-ree]
/ ˈkæl və ri /
noun
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
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Pioneer Park used to be Calvary cemetery once upon a time.
From Salon ● May 9, 2026
Actor Gary Lydon who starred in films such as Calvary, The Guard and The Banshees of Inisherin, has died aged 61.
From BBC ● May 3, 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
San Clemente 79, Calvary Chapel 44: Christian Fernandez scored 19 points and Porter Hansen added 17 to lead the 6-1 Tritons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2024
The dim Chapel of Calvary held a mournful mural of Jesus lying arms outspread and dead on the cross after it was taken down and laid on the ground.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
Jessie Sheehan, on the other hand, skips the oats and calls in pecans, and a calvary of spices including ginger and nutmeg.
From Salon ● Nov. 12, 2022
It took penalties, in the end, to separate the teams, to determine which set of fans would remember this journey as a holiday and which a calvary.
From New York Times ● May 18, 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
The triumphal arch and ossuary are very inferior to St. Thégonnec, but the calvary is a magnificent monument, unequalled in Brittany, richly sculptured and ornamented.
From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 by Wood, Charles W.
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
Long their gaze clung, filled with unspeakable things, things that were high as Heaven itself, that pass only between men clean of heart on the Calvaries of earth.
From The Maid of the Whispering Hills by Roe, Vingie E. (Vingie Eve)
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 Rawson, Graham
And I was shown in that Vision the Calvaries of maternity common to all, whether the conception be immaculate, so-called if within the law, or maculate, so-called if without the law.
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)
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 Gibbs, Philip
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