Definitions for necropolis

necropolis ne·crop·o·lis

Spelling: [nuh-krop-uh-lis, ne-]
IPA: /nəˈkrɒp ə lɪs, nɛ-/

Necropolis is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 878 anagrams from letters in necropolis (ceilnooprs).

Definitions for necropolis

noun

  1. a cemetery, especially one of large size and usually of an ancient city.
  2. a historic or prehistoric burial ground.

Origin of necropolis

First recorded in 1810-20, necropolis is from the Greek word nekrópolis burial place (literally, city of the dead). See necro-, -polis

Examples for necropolis

Nor call I devise what Apion would have said, had their habitation been at necropolis?

No, he was blowed if he'd let himself be hurried down to the necropolis like this.

My first novel, Alive in necropolis—or, rather, the process of writing it—changed me.

Does the paraschites live to the north or south of the necropolis?

Of the singular suburb styled the necropolis or "city of the dead," nothing remains.

But the necropolis Company, whether it knows it or not, did not found the tradition.

He died in 1837, and his remains were consigned to the necropolis of the city.

As I mentioned above, I got started writing Alive in necropolis because my agent gave me a nudge in that direction.

Through such as these Rome has come to be spoken of as the necropolis of the Living.

The necropolis has been robbed to form the collections of Salt, Drouetti, and others.

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