Thirteen completely sealed wooden coffins have been discovered in the necropolis of Saqqara in Egypt.
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Necropolis
//nɛˈkɹɒpəlɪs//
Synonyms for "necropolis" (19 found)
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Related words (9)
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75 translations across 52 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- nekropolis noun (cemetery)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- νεκρόπολις noun (cemetery)
Arabic
1 entries- مَقْبَرَة noun (cemetery)
Armenian
3 entries- մահաքաղաք noun (cemetery)
- մեռելաքաղաք noun (cemetery)
- նեկրոպոլիս noun (cemetery)
Asturian
1 entries- necrópolis noun (cemetery)
Basque
1 entries- nekropoli noun (cemetery)
Belarusian
1 entries- некропаль noun (cemetery)
Bulgarian
2 entries- гробище noun (cemetery)
- некропол noun (ancient site used for burying the dead)
Catalan
1 entries- necròpolis noun (cemetery)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 墓地 noun (cemetery)
Czech
1 entries- nekropole noun (cemetery)
Danish
1 entries- nekropol noun (cemetery)
Dutch
3 entries- dodenstad noun (ancient site used for burying the dead)
- necropolis noun (cemetery)
- necropolis noun (ancient site used for burying the dead)
Egyptian
4 entries- D2:D21-X1:N25 noun (cemetery)
- nTr-Xr:r-N25 noun (cemetery)
- r:Z1-V2:V2-V2:xAst noun (cemetery)
- tA:N21*Z1-Dsr:xAst noun (cemetery)
Esperanto
1 entries- nekropolo noun (ancient site used for burying the dead)
Estonian
1 entries- nekropol noun (cemetery)
Finnish
2 entries- nekropoli noun (cemetery)
- nekropolis noun (cemetery)
French
1 entries- nécropole noun (cemetery)
Galician
1 entries- necrópole noun (cemetery)
Georgian
1 entries- ნეკროპოლისი noun (cemetery)
German
3 entries- Nekropole noun (cemetery)
- Nekropolis noun (cemetery)
- Totenstadt noun (cemetery)
Greek
2 entries- νεκρόπολη noun (cemetery)
- νεκρόπολη noun (ancient site used for burying the dead)
Hebrew
1 entries- נקרופוליס noun (cemetery)
Hindi
1 entries- मृतकनगर noun (cemetery)
Hungarian
1 entries- nekropolisz noun (cemetery)
Ido
1 entries- nekropolo noun (cemetery)
Indonesian
1 entries- nekropolis noun (cemetery)
Irish
2 entries- reilig noun (cemetery)
- úirleachas noun (cemetery)
Italian
1 entries- necropoli noun (cemetery)
Japanese
4 entries- ネクロポリス noun (cemetery)
- ネクロポリス noun (ancient site used for burying the dead)
- 墓地 noun (cemetery)
- 墓地 noun (ancient site used for burying the dead)
Korean
1 entries- 네크로폴리스 noun (cemetery)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- некрополь noun (cemetery)
Latin
1 entries- necropolis noun (cemetery)
Lithuanian
1 entries- nekropolis noun (cemetery)
Macedonian
1 entries- некропола noun (cemetery)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- nekropolis noun (cemetery)
Occitan
1 entries- necropòli noun (cemetery)
Polish
2 entries- nekropola noun (cemetery)
- nekropolia noun (cemetery)
Portuguese
1 entries- necrópole noun (cemetery)
Romanian
1 entries- necropolă noun (cemetery)
Russian
1 entries- некро́поль noun (cemetery)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- baile nam marbh noun (cemetery)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- nekròpola noun (cemetery)
- nekròpola noun (ancient site used for burying the dead)
- некро̀пола noun (cemetery)
- некро̀пола noun (ancient site used for burying the dead)
Sinhalese
1 entries- නෙක්රොපොලිසය noun (cemetery)
Slovak
1 entries- nekropola noun (cemetery)
Slovene
1 entries- nekropola noun (cemetery)
Spanish
1 entries- necrópolis noun (cemetery)
Swedish
1 entries- nekropol noun (cemetery)
Tamil
1 entries- நெக்ரோபொலிசு noun (cemetery)
Turkish
1 entries- nekropol noun (cemetery)
Ukrainian
1 entries- некрóполь noun (cemetery)
Welsh
1 entries- necropolis noun (ancient site used for burying the dead)
Sample sentences
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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.
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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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