Necropolis

/nɛˈkɹɒpəlɪs/

Synonyms for "necropolis" (8 found)

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Noun(2 words)
burial groundburial site

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Noun(2 words)
burying groundcemeteries

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Thirteen completely sealed wooden coffins have been discovered in the necropolis of Saqqara in Egypt.

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In Turkey, the tombs, according to the custom of the ancients, are always without the towns; and as each tomb has uſually a large ſtone, and ſome maſonry, they conſtitute what may almoſt be called a ſecond town, which may be named, as formerly at Alexandria, Necropolis, or the city of the dead.

Source: wiktionary

It was a lovely morning, as I said, and the Turks, who are early risers, were sitting on the graves of their kindred with their veiled wives and children, the marble turbans in that thickly-sown nekropolis less numerous than those of the living, who had come, not to mourn the dead who lay beneath, but to pass a day of idleness and pleasure on the spot endeared by their memories.

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[I]t [Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris] is an overcrowded, shabby, dusty, and ill-kept cemetery: Kensall Green, though incipient, is far more picturesque; and several American necropoleis beat it hollow.

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