Definitions

potter's field

NOUN

boneyard

Synonyms

WEAK

God's acre Golgotha boot hill catacomb cemetery charnel charnel house churchyard city of the dead crypt eternal home funerary grounds garden grave graveyard marble town memorial park mortuary necropolis ossuary polyandrium resting place sepulcher tomb vault

NOUN

burial ground

Synonyms

STRONGEST

cemetery graveyard

WEAK

bone orchard bone yard burial yard burying ground burying place catacomb city of the dead family plot final resting place necropolis plot

NOUN

cemetery

Synonyms

STRONGEST

garden graveyard mortuary tomb

STRONG

Golgotha catacomb charnel churchyard crypt grave necropolis ossuary sepulcher vault

WEAK

God's acre boot hill charnel house city of the dead eternal home funerary grounds marble town memorial park polyandrium resting place

NOUN

necropolis

Synonyms

STRONG

catacomb charnel churchyard crypt graveyard sepulcher tomb vault

WEAK

God's acre boot hill charnel house city of the dead funerary grounds

Example Sentences

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It is basically unmarked, and looks like the type of grave that one would find at potters field or some equivalent space where the indigent are interred.

From Salon • Aug. 5, 2022

And they took counsel, and bought with them the potters field, to bury strangers in.

From Walks and Words of Jesus A Paragraph Harmony of the Four Evangelists by Olmsted, M. N.

potter's field

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