potter's field

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   a cemetery for unknown or indigent people

   Broadercemetery

Questions about potter's field

What does potter's field mean?

potter's field means "a cemetery for unknown or indigent people".

Is potter's field a common word?

potter's field 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.