Usually means: City of the dead; cemetery.
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  1. necropolis: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. necropolis: Merriam-Webster
  3. necropolis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. necropolis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. necropolis: Collins English Dictionary
  6. necropolis: Vocabulary.com
  7. Necropolis, necropolis: Wordnik
  8. necropolis: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. necropolis: Wiktionary
  10. necropolis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. necropolis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. necropolis: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Necropolis, necropolis: Dictionary.com
  14. necropolis: Online Etymology Dictionary
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  16. Necropolis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. necropolis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. necropolis: Rhymezone
  19. Necropolis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. necropolis: FreeDictionary.org
  21. necropolis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. necropolis: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. necropolis: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. necropolis: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. necropolis: A Word A Day

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. necropolis: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See necropoleis as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (chiefly historical, also figuratively) A cemetery; especially a large one in or near a city.
noun:  (archaeology) An ancient site used for burying the dead, particularly if consisting of elaborate grave monuments.
noun:  A city or settlement where most people are dead and/or dying.

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