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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};
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[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.
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[ "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!
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[ "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
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[ "Necropolis" ]
1: Morbid, gothic, chilly tourist attraction.
* e.g., ... 'It's getting late, lets take a short cut through the Necropolis.' 'Yeah, great idea!'
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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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