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God's acre

American  

noun

  1. a cemetery, especially one adjacent to a church; churchyard.

God's acre British  

noun

  1. literary a churchyard or burial ground

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of God's acre

1610–20; translation of German Gottesacker

Example Sentences

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This God's acre, where is traced indelibly in these rows of glorious stones the symbol of the spirit of this great country, and the record of the nation's sacrifice in the cause of freedom.

From Time Magazine Archive

The manager asked me to consecrate this little plot of ground with a larger space added to it, so that they might have their own little God’s acre.

From Russian Life To-day by Bury, Right Rev. Herbert

So she and dear Beth are quietly asleep in God's acre, and we remember them more tenderly with each year that brings us nearer them and home.

From Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals by Alcott, Louisa May

The wind from the sea was blowing fresh and free over the village, and beyond it to the little churchyard, the God's acre of Northbourne.

From The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys by Manwell, M. B.

God's acre, the folk of parts of Europe call the enclosure of their dead.

From A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 by Taggart, Marion Ames

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