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    [Noun]  | "ne*crop*o*lis" | \ nə-ˈkrä-pə-ləs \


    1: cemetery; especially : a large elaborate cemetery of an ancient city


    Origin: 1819 ;

     Borrowed from Late Latin, "cemetery," borrowed from Greek Nekrópolis, literally, "city of the dead," name of a large cemetery in a suburb of ancient Alexandria, from nekro- {see: |necro-|necr-} + -polis {see: |-polis|-polis};

    [Noun]  | "necropolis" 


    1: a piece of land used for burying the dead;


      * e.g., " ... an ancient necropolis that has given archaeologists valuable insights into how people once lived and died "



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    [Noun]  | "necropolises" 


    1: a piece of land used for burying the dead;


      * e.g., " ... an ancient necropolis that has given archaeologists valuable insights into how people once lived and died "



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     [ "necropolis" ]

    1: From Greek, denoting The City of the Dead, nowadays a churchyard, a graveyard. Also necropola. Underground necropolis is called catacombs.

      * e.g.,  ... Graveyard School of Poetry poets often broded over life and death surrounded by the gloomy miasma and rotting putrefactions of so rueful a place as a necropolis. 

     [ "necropolis" ]

    1: One of the stages of the main building of the Undead race in Warcraft.

      * e.g.,  ... Dammit, I can't build any grunt units right now, since my Necropolis is upgrading! 

     [ "Necropolis" ]

    1: N.

      * e.g.,  ... After falling into the ocean, the great city of Atlantis was rendered a veritable necropolis 


     [ "Necropolis" ]

    2:  A city populated soully by the dead.


     [ "Necropolis" ]

    3:  A city which has fallen. ie Atlantis

     [ "Necropolis" ]

    1: Morbid, gothic, chilly tourist attraction.

      * e.g.,  ... 'It's getting late, lets take a short cut through the Necropolis.' 'Yeah, great idea!' 


     [ "Necropolis" ]

    2: Hill on outskirts of Glasgow city, covered in with hundreds of graves - from small unmarked stones to massive mausoleums. A solitary footpath winds round the Necropolis, spiralling round the crest of the hill to the top. Found next to Glasgow Cathedral.


     [ "Necropolis" ]

    3: Creepy as shit at night. Not much better in the day but at least you can see where you're going.

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