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pottersfield

pottersfield is the alternative form of potter's field.

Meaning of potter's field

Noun

potter's field (plural potter's fields)

  1. (idiomatic) A public place where strangers, paupers, and criminals are buried.
    • The despised pauper, most likely a foreigner, when his spirit has gone to its final resting-place, is probably carried to the Potter's Field.1862, David W. Mitchell, Ten Years in the United States, Elder Smith, page 157

Forms of pottersfield

pluralpottersfields

Origin of pottersfield

From potter + -s- + field.

Questions about pottersfield

What is pottersfield the alternative form of?
Pottersfield is the alternative form of potter's field.

Words near pottersfield in the dictionary

  1. potters
  2. potters about
  3. potters around
  4. Potters Bar
  5. Potters Green
  6. pottersfield
  7. pottersfields
  8. Potterton
  9. Potterverse
  10. pottery
  11. Pottery Barn rule

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