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golgotha

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What does golgotha mean?

noun

  1. A charnel house.

proper noun

  1. The hill outside Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified.
More meanings (2)

proper noun

  1. (obsolete) The rooms of the heads of the colleges.

noun

  1. (obsolete, slang) A hat.
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Disorder, horror, fear, and mutiny Shall here inhabit, and this land be called The field of Golgotha and dead men’s skulls.
William ShakespeareThe Complete Works of William ShakespeareProject Gutenberg ebook #100
And men go up to that Golgotha by degrees; and in the place of that mortise was Adam’s head found after Noah’s flood, in token that the sins of Adam should be bought in that same place.
John, Sir MandevilleThe Travels of Sir John MandevilleProject Gutenberg ebook #782