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necropolisne‧crop‧o‧lis /nɪˈkrɒpəlɪs $ -ˈkrɑː-/ noun [countable] - 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 |