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单词 necropolis
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necropolisne‧crop‧o‧lis /nɪˈkrɒpəlɪs $ -ˈkrɑː-/ noun [countable] Examples
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  • A necropolis was established in Liverpool in 1825, and within five years was paying shareholders a dividend of 8%.
  • Bonaventure is a beautiful necropolis where the storied and moneyed of Savannah live in perpetual care.
  • London is a necropolis, its every corner the site of a murder, its soil a pudding of blood and tears.
  • The enormous necropolis is adjacent and contains hundreds of tombs cut down into the tufa over a distance of two miles.
an area of land where dead people are buried, especially a large ancient one SYN  cemetery:  the extensive necropolis which served the Etruscan city of Caere
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