necropolis

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To-day they are the only landmarks of this necropolis, which is nearly six miles in length, and was formerly covered by temples of a magnificence and a vastness unimaginable to the minds of our day.

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  1. noun A cemetery, especially a large and elaborate one belonging to an ancient city.

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  • Word of the atrocity spread like wildfire from Destrou patrols in the necropolis, to the Grabbit warrens that riddled the volcanic hillsides around, through the steam tunnels and the guard posts stationed at the head of the sulfur vents, and to the distant oracle caves of the Tristou. —  J
  • ;Your sacred necropolis is within the rig It is sacred to our ancestors. —  J
  • She said that the cathedral's subterranean cavern is now actually a necropolis, where three bishops were buried. —  Davao Today
  • Something else lives within the necropolis, a faceless horror as deadly and merciless as space itself, a lethal terror that has waited centuries to awake ... and destroy. —  comicbookbin.com
  • At the Dahshour necropolis, south of the Giza Plateau, a Japanese mission from Waseda University came across four painted wooden anthropoid coffins, three wooden canopic jars and two ushabti (cultic figurine) boxes inside an unidentified burial shaft located in the northern area of the Ramesside tomb of Ta. —  Al-Ahram Weekly Online
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  1. Greek nekropolis : nekro-, necro- + polis, city; see pelə-3 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. New Latin, from Greek νεκρόπολις, a cemetery, from νεκρός, a dead body, + πόλις, a city.
 

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