god's acre

1. 1.

   the yard associated with a church

   Synonymschurchyard

   Broaderyard

Questions about god's acre

What does god's acre mean?

god's acre means "the yard associated with a church".

What is another word for god's acre?

Close synonyms include churchyard. 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 god's acre a common word?

god's acre 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.