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# {{lb|en|chiefly|historical|also|figuratively}} A [[cemetery]]; especially a [[large]] one in or near a [[city]].
#: {{synonyms|en|necropole|q1=rare|Thesaurus:cemetery}}
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#* {{quote-book|en|author=[[w:Nathaniel Parker Willis
#* {{quote-book|en|author=[[w:Martin Farquhar Tupper
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Mrs. [J. B.] Webb|chapter=I|title=Alypius of Tagaste: A Tale of the Early Church|location=London|publisher={{w|Religious Tract Society}};{{nb...|[...] 56, Paternoster Row; 65, St. Paul’s Churchyard; and 164, Piccadilly. Sold by the booksellers.}}|year=[1875?]|page=9|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=pM0BAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA9|oclc=60884003|passage=The great main street, which ran from the eastern extremity of the city [of Alexandria, Egypt] to the '''Necropolis''' at the western end, a distance of thirty stadia, was thronged already with eager citizens, mostly arrayed in holiday costume, and with an expression of expectation on their animated countenances.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|editor=David Baptie|entry=READ, WILLIAM DAVID|title=Musical Scotland Past and Present: Being a Dictionary of Scottish Musicians from about 1400 till the Present Time:{{nb...|To which is Added a Bibliography of Musical Publications Connected with Scotland from 1611}}|location=Paisley, Renfrewshire|publisher=J. and R. Parlane;{{nb...|Edinburgh and Glasgow: John Menzies and Co. London: Houlston and Sons}}|year=1894|oclc=1064784645|newversion=reprinted as|location2=Hildesheim, Lower Saxony; New York, N.Y.|publisher2=Georg Olms|year2=1972|page2=154|pageurl2=https://books.google.com/books?id=EeeuAfSxlp0C&pg=PA154|isbn2=978-3-487-04292-3|passage=READ, WILLIAM DAVID, [...] Sol-fa teacher, lecturer, and vocal composer. [...] He is interred in the Glasgow '''Necropolis''', where a handsome monument has been erected to his memory by his friends and pupils.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=[[w:Charles Ryle Fay|C[harles] R[yle] Fay
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Kevin Cook|chapter=Garden Suburb|chapterurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=9gTGAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT28|title=[[w:Murder of Kitty Genovese|Kitty Genovese]]: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America|location=New York, N.Y.; London|publisher=
# {{lb|en|archaeology}} An [[ancient]] [[site#Noun|site]] [[use#Verb|used]] for [[bury]]ing the [[dead#Noun|dead]], particularly if [[consist]]ing of [[elaborate#Adjective|elaborate]] [[grave#Noun|grave]] [[monument]]s.
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Abbé de St. Michon [''i.e.'', {{w|Jean-Hippolyte Michon}}]|chapter=XIV|translator=[anonymous]|title=Narrative of a Religious Journey in the East in 1850 and 1851|location=London|publisher=[[w:Richard Bentley (publisher)|Richard Bentley]],{{nb...|New Burlington Street, publisher in ordinary to Her Majesty.}}|year=1853|page=338|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=N4tDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA338|oclc=562780007|passage=These labours upon Phœnician '''necropoli''' are of great importance. [...] M. [[w:Louis Félicien de Saulcy|[Louis Félicien] de Saulcy]], one of the first travellers who has thrown light upon these '''necropoli''', devoted himself to a very interesting examination of the tombs of the kings, of the prophets and judges, and upon the immense '''necropolis''' that surrounds Jerusalem, like a funeral enceinte.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=A[dolphus] L[ouis] Kœppen|chapter=The Harbors and Naval Establishments of the Ancient Athenians—The Modern Peiræus|title=Sketches of a Traveller from Greece, Constantinople, Asia Minor, Syria and Palestine|location=Chambersburg, Pa.|publisher={{...|Printed by}} M. Kieffer & Co.|year=1854|page=19|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=1E0OAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA3-PA19|oclc=78077742|passage=The ancient Greeks generally buried their dead in their '''nekropoleis''' or their gardens; often on the road leading to their towns, or before the gates. This pious feeling of affection and reverence for the dead, is a touching feature in the character of the modern Greeks.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=James Burton Robinson|chapter=Lecture IV. Lecture on the Geography, Institutions, Trade, Arts, and Sciences of Ancient Egypt|title=Public Lectures Delivered before the Catholic University of Ireland, on Some Subjects of Ancient & Modern History, in the Years 1856, 1857, & 1858|location=London|publisher=Catholic Bookselling & Publishing Company,{{nb...|Limited, Charles Dolman, Manager, 61, New Bond Street, & 6, Queen’s Head Passage, Paternoster Row.}}|year=1859|page=149|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZRNXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA149|oclc=166253147|passage=What shall I say of these immense '''Necropoleis''', or Cities of the Dead, where the same care and labour were employed to embellish death, as other nations have bestowed on the adornment of life? Such an architecture could have sprung up only among a people filled with the idea of immortality, and in whose eyes earthly existence was but a fleeting passage to a future life.}}
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#* {{quote-journal|en|title=Pointed Architecture.{{nb...|(Abridged from the Moniteur des Architectes.)}}|magazine=The Art-Student; a Magazine of the Fine Arts:{{nb...|Being a Guide to Their Principles and Practice.}}|location=London|publisher=Hall, Smart, and Allen,{{nb...|Paternoster Row.}}|date=1 February 1865|volume=II|issue=13|page=262|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=KjIFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA262|column=2|oclc=877323759|passage=Are we not overawed by those immense temples [in Egypt], those prodigious palaces, those grottos hewn in the living rock, those endless '''necropolises''', and those indestructible colossi?}}
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#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Graeme Barker
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=M. Chiaradia
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Alexandra[-Fani] Alexandridou|chapter=Attic Early Black-figured Shapes|editors=John M. Fossey; Angelo Geissen|title=The Early Black-figured Pottery of Attika in Context (c. 630–570 BCE)|series=Monumenta Graeca et Romana|seriesvolume=17|location=Leiden|publisher=[[w:Brill Publishers|Brill]]|year=2011|page=38|pageurl=https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=iZHIs0SwGq8C&pg=PA38|column=1|isbn=978-90-04-18604-0|issn=0169-8850|passage=If the layer of the offerings is contemporary with the burials, then these are the earliest of the '''nekropolis''', dating to the early third quarter of the seventh century.}}
# A [[city]] or [[settlement]] where most people are [[dead]] and/or [[dying]].
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1998| title=Bleeding London|author=Geoff Nicholson | page=| passage=You think London isn't a '''necropolis'''? Let me tell you it is. And people love it. Our cemeteries are popular tourist attractions. }}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2011| title=Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East|author=Simon Sebag Montefiore | page=271| passage=Jerusalem was a '''necropolis''' where old or sick pilgrims were content to die and be buried until the Resurrection.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2012| title=Necropolis|author=Anthony Horowitz | page=| passage="A week from now, it will be completely unrecognizable," the chairman said. "It will have become a '''necropolis'''. I'm sure you will understand what that means, a man of your learning.” “A city of the dead.” “Exactly. The entire population has begun to die. {{...}}"}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2018| title=Marooned|author=Joseph Kelly | page=| passage=But bury them they did, a weary train of funerals held within the palisade, lest the Indians see the thinning of their ranks. James Fort became a '''necropolis'''.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2022| title=An Ambazonian Liberation Theology?|author=Daniel J. Pratt Morris-Chapman | page=| passage=Ambazonia will become a '''necropolis''' comparable to certain other states in the region. }}
====Alternative forms====
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* Irish: {{t|ga|reilig|f}}, {{t|ga|úirleachas|m}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|necropoli|f}}
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* Korean: {{t|ko|네크로폴리스}}
* Kyrgyz: {{t|ky|некрополь}}
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==Dutch==
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===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|nl|/neːˈkroː.poː.lɪs/}}
* {{audio|nl|Nl-necropolis.ogg
* {{hyphenation|nl|ne|cro|po|lis}}
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