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Definition of Necropolis
1. Noun. A tract of land used for burials.
Specialized synonyms: Potter's Field
Generic synonyms: Land Site, Site
Definition of Necropolis
1. n. A city of the dead; a name given by the ancients to their cemeteries, and sometimes applied to modern burial places; a graveyard.
Definition of Necropolis
1. Noun. A large cemetery, especially one of elaborate construction in an ancient city. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Necropolis
1. [n -LISES, -LES, -LEIS or -LI]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Necropolis
Literary usage of Necropolis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"He rendered, however, real service by his projection in 1849 of ' The London
necropolis and National Mausoleum at Woking.' In connection with this scheme ..."
2. Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology by Society of Biblical Archaeology (1887)
"(necropolis I. Grave xcn.) + AAAA II I I. Perhaps = 144. No. 86. ... The same
character, or combination of characters, is found in necropolis III, ..."
3. The Monuments of Upper Egypt: A Translation of the "Itinéraire de la Haute by Auguste Mariette, Lysander Dickerman (1890)
"We may rest assured that the spot selected for its site, bordering at once on
the desert and on the necropolis, was not idly chosen. We may read therein, ..."
4. Egypt by Eva Ambros (2001)
"To the south the enormous area of the **necropolis of ... The importance of this
necropolis was so great that a large influx of pilgrims, who wished to vist ..."
5. The Rock Tombs of Deir El Gebrâwi by Norman de Garis Davies, Walter Ewing Crum, George Albert Boulenger (1902)
"THE AGE OF THE NORTHERN necropolis. Severe as is the ruin which has overtaken
these tombs, it has, no doubt, fallen upon them impartially, so that their ..."
6. A History of Art in Ancient Egypt by Georges Perrot, Charles Chipiez (1883)
"THE MASTABAS OF THE necropolis OF MEMPHIS. The space over which the monuments
which we propose to describe are spread, is on the left bank of the Nile, ..."
7. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1875)
"Since that time Count Jean Gozzadini has published an account of the necropolis
of Villanova, near Bologna, Italy, which was brought by him before the ..."
8. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"necropolis. A city of the dead; applied generally to ... allow- ing the lock to
open ; the device being a substitute for the necropolis AT ..."
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