necropolitan
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From necropolis + -itan.[1]
Adjective
[edit]necropolitan (comparative more necropolitan, superlative most necropolitan)
- Of or pertaining to a large cemetery or necropolis.
- 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 467:
- Humboldt had been buried not in potter's Ffield but far out in Deathsille, New Jersey, one of those vast, necropolitan developments …
References
[edit]- ^ “necropolitan, adj.”, in OED Online
[1], Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000, archived from the original on 2023-09-13.
