Necropolitan

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to a large cemetery or necropolis.

    "Humboldt had been buried not in potter's Ffield but far out in Deathsille, New Jersey, one of those vast, necropolitan developments …"

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"Humboldt had been buried not in potter's Ffield but far out in Deathsille, New Jersey, one of those vast, necropolitan developments …"

Etymology

From necropolis + -itan.

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