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单词 golgotha
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golgothan.

Brit. /ˈɡɒlɡəθə/, /ɡɒlˈɡɒðə/, U.S. /ˈɡɑlɡəθə/, /ˈɡɔlɡəθə/
Etymology: < Latin (Vulgate) golgotha, Greek γολγοθά, < gogolþā , Aramaic form of Hebrew gulgōleþ skull: see Calvary n.
1. A place of interment; a graveyard, charnel house.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > burial ground or cemetery > [noun]
littenc900
charnel1377
burying-place1382
fosse?a1425
churchyard1477
golgotha1604
God's acre1605
cemetery1613
burial-place1633
dormitory1634
burying-ground1711
burial-field1743
graveyard1767
burial-ground1803
burial-yard1842
boneyard1866
Boot Hill1901
necropole1921
memorial park1927
grave-site1953
the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > burial-chamber > [noun] > repository or ossuary
bone houseOE
charnel1430
carnarya1552
charnel house1556
ossuary1600
golgotha1604
repository?1639
conditory1706
ossuarium1765
reposit1792
skullery1818
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iv. i. 135 This land [shall] be cald, The field of Golgotha and dead mens sculs. View more context for this quotation]
1604 J. Marston Malcontent iv. v. sig. G2v This earth is the only graue and golgotha wherein all thinges that liue must rotte.
a1649 W. Drummond Skiamachia in Wks. (1711) 204 These have..dy'd the White Fields in Blood, turned them into a Golgotha.
1749 J. Gwynn Ess. Design Pref. 6 Westminster-abbey..was by no Means intended as a mere Golgotha for the Remains of the..Dead.
1878 H. M. Stanley Through Dark Continent I. i. 35 From time immemorial this old beach has been the depository of the dead, and unless the Prince prosecutes his good work for the reclamation of this golgotha [etc.].
2. University slang. (See quots.) Obsolete.
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society > education > place of education > educational buildings > [noun] > college or university buildings > lecture or disputation rooms
school hallc1450
public school1582
golgotha1726
lecture-room1817
lecture-theatre1849
lecture-hall1967
1726 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (ed. 2) I. xi. 59 Here is that famous apartment, by idle wits and buffoons nick-named Golgotha, that is, the place of sculls or heads of colleges and halls, where they meet and debate upon all extraordinary affairs.
a1742 R. Lloyd Charity The Golgotha of learned fools.
1791 2nd Heroic Ep. to J. Priestley in Poet. Reg. (1808) 415 Dragg'd down to Oxford, at its stern command, Before dread Golgotha I see thee stand, Arraign'd, condemn'd.
1803 Gradus ad Cantabrigiam 66 Golgotha, the place where the heads of Houses sit at St. Mary's in awful array.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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