Proper noun

1. The hill outside Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified.
2. 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.

Quotations

• "And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha"

• 1726, Terræ Filius No. XI:

  "…for here is that famous apartment, by idle wits and buffoons nick-named Golgotha, i.e. the place of Sculls or Heads of colleges and halls, where they meet and debate upon all extraordinary affairs…"