necropoleis

English

Alternative forms

• nekropoleis

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɛˈkɹɒ.pɒ.lɛɪz/

Noun

necropoleis

1. plural of necropolis
   • 1856, Martin Farquhar Tupper, Paterfamilias's diary of everybody's tour: Belgium and the Rhine, Munich, Switzerland, Milan…, page 288:

     Kensall Green, though incipient, is far more picturesque; and several American necropoleis beat it hollow.

   • 2000, Thelma Katrina Thomas, Late Antique Egyptian Funerary Sculpture: images for this world and the next, page XXIX:

     Ancient necropoleis were cities for the dead where the dead might be active in this world, appearing, speaking, and performing actions that could be perceived by and affect the living.

   • 2007, Christopher Haas, Alexandria in Late Antiquity: Topography and Social Conflict, page 213:

     Although Christians frequently met in suburban cemeteries during the second and third centuries, to our knowledge none of these necropoleis became the site…

Anagrams

• sceloporine