单词 | God's acre |
释义 | God's acre (once / 59097 pages) n WORD FAMILY God's acre USAGE EXAMPLESI like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial ground, God's acre. Webster, Noah, Webster's Unabridged Dictionary(2012) And indeed everything seems to centre around God's acre, and the spire of the meeting-house points in the same direction as the stories themselves. Phelps, William Lyon, Essays on Modern Novelists(2011) Our own dead were conveyed to the cemeteries and burying-grounds; but the people would not tolerate the desecrating Germans in "God's acre." Morse, John, In the Russian Ranks—A Soldier's Ac...(2011) n the yard associated with a church Syn|Hyper churchyard yard a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings) |
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