calvary cross

1. 1.

   a Latin cross set on three steps

   Synonymscross of Calvary

   BroaderCross

Questions about calvary cross

What does calvary cross mean?

calvary cross means "a Latin cross set on three steps".

What is another word for calvary cross?

Close synonyms include cross of Calvary. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is calvary cross a common word?

calvary cross is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.