hallowed ground
Revered burial site
Hallowed ground is land regarded as sacred or deserving special reverence, typically because of religious significance or historical sacrifice.
Battlefields where soldiers died become hallowed ground; so do cemeteries, churches, and sites of tragedy.
The phrase often appears in debates about development or desecration: Building a shopping mall on hallowed ground sparked outrage.
Figuratively, any space treated with unusual respect: The workshop was hallowed ground—no one touched his tools.
- monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
- sacred groveWoodland deemed divine
- altarSacred ritual table
- crossPass from side to side
- cathedralBishop's principal church
mosque · sanctuary · sacred mountain · memorial · war memorial · fallen soldiers · earth · ancestral land · tomb · heritage site · pilgrimage site · native soil · holy relic · ancestors · blood-soaked · sacred duty · gravesite · hush
- sacredholy, sacred, sanctity, sacredness, holiness
- ground(s) wordsgarden, yard, lawn, courtyard, campus
- protective magicprotection charm, talismans, protective charm, wards, charms
- sanctityholiness, sacredness, hallowedness, sanctity, blessedness
- war memorialwar memorial, military cemetery, national cemetery, Arlington National Cemetery, war dead
- sacred portalsmagic portal, dimensional rift, torii gate, temple gate, pearly gates