✝️calvary (calvaire)

noun
/ˈkælvəri/
calvaire (kalvair)

Signification

A place or experience of intense suffering, originally the site of Jesus’s crucifixion.
Traduction de la signification
un lieu ou une experience de souffrance intense, a lorigine le lieu de la crucifixion de Jesus
un lieu ou une experience de souffrance intense a lorigine le lieu de la crucifixion de Jesus

Phrases d'exemple

For many refugees, the journey across the desert was a calvary.

Pour de nombreux réfugiés, le voyage à travers le désert fut un calvaire.
Pour de nombreux refugies, le voyage a travers le desert fut un calvaire.

Synonymes

ordeal, suffering, crucifixion, torment, agony

Antonymes

relief, comfort, ease

Collocations

a calvary of suffering, personal calvary, spiritual calvary

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