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POTTER'S FIELD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does potter's field mean?
• POTTER'S FIELD (noun)
The noun POTTER'S FIELD has 1 sense:
1. a cemetery for unknown or indigent people
Familiarity information: POTTER'S FIELD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A cemetery for unknown or indigent people
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("potter's field" is a kind of...):
burial ground; burial site; burying ground; cemetery; graveyard; memorial park; necropolis (a tract of land used for burials)
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