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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The family lived down the street from the potter’s field where the boy was first buried, and placed flowers there on holidays.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 13, 2023

After an autopsy, Joseph was buried for the first time at a potter’s field in the city.

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2022

Calvary Catholic Cemetery — made a plan: Establish a potter’s field, gather the unclaimed dead and give them a proper burial.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2021

Instead of using the potter’s field, Dr. Sampson said her agency would soon start letting families freeze the bodies of their loved ones as a “long-term storage option” at the disaster morgues.

From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2020

Soon after, they were buried in unmarked graves in a potter's field.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

potter's field

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