necropolis
from greek, denoting the city of the dead, nowadays a churchyard, a graveyard. also necropola. underground necropolis is called catacombs.
graveyard school of poetry poets often broded over life and death surrounded by the gloomy miasma and rotting putrefactions of so rueful a place as a necropolis.
n.
1. a city populated soully by the dead.
2. a city which has fallen. ie atlantis
after falling into the ocean, the great city of atlantis was rendered a veritable necropolis
morbid, gothic, chilly tourist attraction.
hill on outskirts of glasgow city, covered in with hundreds of graves – from small unmarked stones to m-ssive mausoleums. a solitary footpath winds round the necropolis, spiralling round the crest of the hill to the top. found next to glasgow cathedral.
creepy as sh-t at night. not much better in the day but at least you can see where you’re going.
‘it’s getting late, lets take a short cut through the necropolis.’ ‘yeah, great idea!’
one of the stages of the main building of the undead race in warcraft.
dammit, i can’t build any grunt units right now, since my necropolis is upgrading!
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