A charnel house.
Used in a Sentence
golgotha
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for golgotha.
Editorial note
This reminds me of the Golgotha drop from 2000: unfinished code and assets from a scrapped game, released as open source/PD.
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Quick take
A charnel house.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of golgotha gathered in one view.
(biblical) The hill outside Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for golgotha.
noun
A charnel house.
noun
(biblical) The hill outside Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified.
Example sentences
This reminds me of the Golgotha drop from 2000: unfinished code and assets from a scrapped game, released as open source/PD.
It's not so good to work with people who are constantly in the throes of passion, or carrying their cross to Golgotha (the passion of the Christ).
Still, I'd rather not have to move my ski season to the sides of Mount Golgotha near Jerusalem - that glowing snow might still be radioactive after all.
Golgotha is from the Greek, via Aramaic via Hebrew, and refers to the skull.
Alternate (likely open) domain name: googlotha (pun on Golgotha).
What's wild is, it kind of resembles Golgotha, the aborted FPS/strategy tank shooter from Crack Dot Com, the studio formed by former Id Software Linux evangelist Dave Taylor.
If they wanted to send a message to Christians, why not choose something obvious like "Cross" or "Golgotha" or "Herod"?
> "Golgotha", the latin word Isn't it Hebrew?
Golgotha was to be Crack's second game, but they folded before it could be finished, and released what code and assets they did have as open source (this was when CatB was still fresh).
> they pivot languages on the word "Golgotha" "Armageddon" actually.
With some elegance, too; iirc they pivot languages on the word "Golgotha" as he reads from the bible, the Latin word for a location near Jerusalem, but having a non-English/non-Russian word be when they switch made it a lot less jarring.
This was the typically medieval image of the journey to Hell or the entry into the jaws of Hell up to the era of the Crusades, when a Minister General of the Franciscan order interpreted the Bible in such a way that the hill of Calvary, the skull, became synonymous with Golgotha, a concept which later included an association with any place of execution, and thus Calvary acquired a new significance...
Quote examples
If they wanted to send a message to Christians, why not choose something obvious like "Cross" or "Golgotha" or "Herod"?
> "Golgotha", the latin word Isn't it Hebrew?
> they pivot languages on the word "Golgotha" "Armageddon" actually.
With some elegance, too; iirc they pivot languages on the word "Golgotha" as he reads from the bible, the Latin word for a location near Jerusalem, but having a non-English/non-Russian word be when they switch made it a lot less jarring.
Proper noun examples
Golgotha is from the Greek, via Aramaic via Hebrew, and refers to the skull.
Alternate (likely open) domain name: googlotha (pun on Golgotha).
What's wild is, it kind of resembles Golgotha, the aborted FPS/strategy tank shooter from Crack Dot Com, the studio formed by former Id Software Linux evangelist Dave Taylor.
Frequently asked questions
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How do you use golgotha in a sentence?
This reminds me of the Golgotha drop from 2000: unfinished code and assets from a scrapped game, released as open source/PD.
What does golgotha mean?
A charnel house.
What part of speech is golgotha?
golgotha is commonly used as noun.