necropolis

A noun referring to a large, ancient cemetery or burial ground, often associated with a city or significant historical site.

• 🇪🇸Sustantivo que designa un gran cementerio o lugar de enterramiento antiguo, a menudo asociado con una ciudad o un importante monumento histórico.

1. Large cemetery C1 formal

   A large, often ancient cemetery or burial ground, especially one belonging to an ancient city.

   • The archaeologists excavated a Roman necropolis outside the city walls.
   • The ancient necropolis contained elaborate tombs and monuments.
   • Visitors walked through the silent necropolis, reading the inscriptions on the stones.

   🇪🇸Necrópolis

   Sinónimos: burial groundburying groundcemeterygraveyard

• necropoleis plural form
• necropolises plural form
• necropoleis' possessive plural form
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• necropolis's possessive singular form