Calvary
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A life-size representation of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on a piece of raised ground A series of representations of Christ’s Passion in a church A strenuous experience
Golgotha
Part of speech: proper noun
Definition: The hill outside Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified.At Oxbridge colleges in the 18th and 19th centuries, a slang term for the rooms of the heads of the colleges (i.e. a pun on 'the place of the skulls or heads'). See Terræ-filius: or, the Secret History of the University of Oxford by Nicholas Amhurst.