A cemetery or other place where many bodies are buried in an elaborate fashion. The word comes from two Greek words: necro ("dead") + polis ("city").
a tract of land used for burials
City of the dead; a large cemetery.
Burial ground or cemetery.
The cemetery. From the Greek word "nekros," which referred to a dead body.
A Greek word meaning "city of the dead," which is what scholars typically call cemeteries in ancient cities.
from the Greek meaning "city of the dead," especially the large cemetery of an ancient city
Greek word for cemetery. "Necropolis" normally describes large and important burial areas that were in use for long periods.
"City of the Dead," cemetery.
City of the dead,” a term for a burial ground.
A cemetery, especially a large, extensive one in an ancient city or a city of the dead.
Large cemetery of a city-size. Gk: city of dead.
The Greek word meaning; "city of the dead" normally describes large and important burial areas that were in use for long periods.
"city of the dead"; a large funerary complex with many burials
A necropolis (plural: necropolises or necropoleis) is a large cemetery or burial place (from Greek nekropolis "city of the dead"). Apart from the occasional application of the word to modern cemeteries outside large towns, the term is chiefly used of burial grounds near the sites of the centers of ancient civilizations.
Necropolis was a 26-part Judge Dredd epic by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra, published in 1990 in 2000 AD progs 674-699. The story was the subject of extensive foreshadowing in the comic: beginning with "The Dead Man" (progs 650-662); followed by "Tale of the Dead Man" (progs 662 to 668) and finally "Countdown to Necropolis" (progs 669-673). It pulled together story threads going back four years.
