Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cemetery, especially a large and elaborate one belonging to an ancient city.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cemetery; specifically, one of the cemeteries of ancient peoples.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A city of the dead; a name given by the ancients to their cemeteries, and sometimes applied to modern burial places; a graveyard.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A large
cemetery , especially one of elaborate construction in an ancient city.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a tract of land used for burials
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Egyptian authorities say archeologists have found an ancient tomb that suggests another necropolis is yet to be discovered near the Great Pyramids of Giza.
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Egyptian authorities say archeologists have found an ancient tomb that suggests another necropolis is yet to be discovered near the Great Pyramids of Giza.
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Egyptian authorities say archeologists have found an ancient tomb that suggests another necropolis is yet to be discovered near the Great Pyramids of Giza.
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One female mummy was found wearing a gilded mask, a rare treasure at the site known as the necropolis of Deir el-Banat.
Archive 2008-01-01 Jan 2008
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Among those buried in the necropolis was a set designer for Pompey's Theater, notorious for being near the spot where Julius Caesar was stabbed to death.
DesignerBlog Will 2006
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Among those buried in the necropolis was a set designer for Pompey's Theater, notorious for being near the spot where Julius Caesar was stabbed to death.
Archive 2006-10-01 Will 2006
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So Dominique and Hannelore excavated a trench perpendicular to the eastern part of the NW necropolis, which is interpreted as a degraded active normal fault plane.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Seismological Studies Report 1 2003
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One of the most interesting objects in Sikyatki food basins from the necropolis was a comparatively well preserved rattle of a rattlesnake.
Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890
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To-day they are the only landmarks of this necropolis, which is nearly six miles in length, and was formerly covered by temples of a magnificence and a vastness unimaginable to the minds of our day.
Egypt (La Mort de Philae) Pierre Loti 1886
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Countless pyramids, obelisks and urns, rising far and wide above the cedars and cypresses, showed the extent of the splendid necropolis, which is inhabited by pale, shrouded emigrants from its living sister below.
Views a-foot Bayard Taylor 1851
uselessness commented on the word necropolis
Hey everybody! Who wants to live in a cemetery?
January 25, 2008
reesetee commented on the word necropolis
Well, they're usually quiet. Not often crowded. Not much to do, but if you're looking for a nice restful place....
Wait--you have to be dead?
January 25, 2008
ofravens commented on the word necropolis
I found your name, I found your bones and all
Enlisted in a cramped necropolis
from "Electra on Azalea Path," Sylvia Plath
April 8, 2008