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Golgotha

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A place or occasion of great suffering.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Calvary. See the Note under Calvary.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The Hebrew (Aramaic) name of the place of Christ's crucifixion, somewhere near Jerusalem.

n. A graveyard or place of interment.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a hill near Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified

Word Usage

"Their breeziness at the altar as well as the velcro on their vestments shows that, for them, the whole golgotha/sacrifice/wine-into-blood thing is No Big Deal."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

hill

Variant

Calvary