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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ἀκελδαμάχ (Akeldamákh), from Aramaic חקל (“field”) + דמא (“blood”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /əˈsɛldəmə/, /əˈkɛldəmə/
- Hyphenation: a‧cel‧da‧ma
Proper noun
Aceldama
- The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his master, and therefore called the field of blood.
Translations
the potter's field purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his master
Noun
Aceldama (plural Aceldamas)
- A field of bloodshed, a place of slaughter.
1849, Thomas de Quincey, The English Mail-Coach:[…] a regiment already for some hours glorified and hallowed to the ear of all London, as lying stretched, by a large majority, upon one bloody aceldama […]
1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 42:Our own trenches had been knocked silly, and all the area of attack had been turned into an Aceldama.
Translations
figuratively, a field of bloodshed
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