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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Necropolis \Ne*crop"o*lis\, n.; pl. Necropolises. [NL., fr. Gr. ?; nekro`s a dead body, adj., dead + ? city.] A city of the dead; a name given by the ancients to their cemeteries, and sometimes applied to modern burial places; a graveyard.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A large cemetery, especially one of elaborate construction in an ancient city.
WordNet
n. a tract of land used for burials [syn: cemetery, graveyard, burial site, burial ground, burying ground, memorial park]
[also: necropoleis (pl)]
Wikipedia
Necropolis is a 26-part story featuring British comics science-fiction character Judge Dredd. Written by John Wagner and painted by Carlos Ezquerra, it was 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 662–668), and finally three stories collectively known as "Countdown to Necropolis" (progs 669–673). It pulled together various story threads going back four years (see also Democracy (Judge Dredd storyline)). "Necropolis" was also followed by a number of epilogues and other follow-up stories, and had repercussions within the Judge Dredd strip which lasted for years.
Unusually, Judge Dredd himself does not appear in 13 of the 26 episodes of "Necropolis", or in any of the 5 episodes of "Countdown to Necropolis."
Necropolis is a British Gothic novel by author Basil Copper. It was published by Arkham House in 1980 in an edition of 4,050 copies. It was Copper's third book published by Arkham House.
Necropolis is a fantasy novel by British writer Anthony Horowitz. It is the fourth novel in his The Power of Five series. The book is set in London, Peru, Miami, Ukraine, Macau and Hong Kong. The book was released in the United Kingdom and Australia on 30 October 2008. It is a rewrite of the corresponding Day of the Dragon, released 1989 in Horowitz's Pentagram series. A marked difference between original is evidenced by a lead character, Will, being replaced with a female counterpart, Scarlett. According to Horowitz, this change resulted a complete rewrite of the original. Before Christmas 2008, the book had sold 190,000 copies worldwide.
A necropolis is a large ancient cemetery with elaborate tomb monuments. The word is derived from the Ancient Greek nekropolis, literally meaning "city of the dead". The term implies a separate burial site at a distance from a city as opposed to tombs within cities, which were common in various places and periods of history. They are different from grave fields, which did not have remains above the ground. While the word is most commonly used for ancient sites, it has also been used for some modern cemeteries such as the Glasgow Necropolis.
A necropolis is a city of the dead (i.e. a cemetery city or mythical place).
Necropolis may also refer to:
- London Necropolis Company, a company which provided out-of-town burials, and later specialised in exhumations
- Necropolis (Copper novel), a 1980 gothic novel by Basil Copper
- Necropolis (Pahor novel), a 1967 autobiographic novel by Boris Pahor
- Necropolis (Horowitz novel), a 2008 'Power of Five' novel by Anthony Horowitz
- Necropolis (Judge Dredd story), a Judge Dredd storyline that ran in 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine
- Necropolis, the third novel in Dan Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts series
- Necrópolis, a 2009 novel by the Colombian novelist Santiago Gamboa
- Necropolis Records, an American record label
- Necropolis (album), a 2009 album by Polish death metal band Vader
- "Necropolis", a song by The Black Dahlia Murder from the album Deflorate
- Necropolis (browser game), a browser game implemented in Adobe Flash
- Necropolis (film), a 1970 Italian film
- Necropolis, (1987) movie published by Full Moon Features
- Necropolis (video game), a 2016 video game.
- "Necropolis", a city populated by ghouls in the 1997 videogame Fallout
Necropolis is a browser game implemented in Adobe Flash. It was released in October 2008 and is the first game by game designer and programmer Gregory Weir. It was sponsored by Spanish gaming portal MiniJuegos.com.
Necropolis is an autobiographical novel, written by Boris Pahor, about his Holocaust experience that has been compared to works of Primo Levi, Imre Kertesz, and Jorge Semprún.
Necropolis is a 1970 Italian-British horror- fantasy film directed by Franco Brocani. A dissertation on human evil through the ages, it is considered a cult film, and it was referred to as "a fusion between an Andy Warhol-style improvisation and an ambitious, esoteric subtext that summons all the Western counterculture of the time".
Necropolis is the eighth studio album by the Polish death metal band Vader. The album was released on August 21, 2009 by Nuclear Blast. The album was nominated for a Fryderyk Award in the category 'Heavy Metal Album of the Year (Album roku heavy metal)'. On April 8, 2009, Vader released the first part of their studio report for the album. Subsequently, the second part was released on April 22, and the third part was released on May 27.
Necropolis was recorded between March and April 2009 at Hertz Studio in Białystok, Poland, and was produced by Tue Madsen. Mixing and mastering for the album took place at Antfarm Studio in Denmark by Madsen, except the songs "The Seal" and "Summoning The Futura", which were mixed at VooDoo Gates Studio in Olsztyn, Poland. Necropolis is the first Vader release that features drummer Paweł "Paul" Jaroszewicz. A video was shot for the song "Never Say My Name", which is based partially on the book "The Gospel According To Satan" by Patrick Graham. Piotr "Peter" Wiwczarek talked about working on the set for videoclip, saying:
The album sold around 1,130 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The album reached number 19 on the Billboard Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers). In Poland, Necropolis landed at position No. 5, and dropped out five weeks later. The album also charted in France and Germany.
Necropolis is an action role-playing video game developed by Harebrained Schemes and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. The game was released for Microsoft Windows and OS X in July 2016, and will be released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One sometime later.
Usage examples of "necropolis".
Among the curious who had flocked together were many embalmers, laborers, and humble folk, who lived in the Necropolis.
In addition I wanted to canvass his views on what sort of human society, if any, could have had the technological know-how, such a very long while ago, to measure accurately the altitudes of the stars and to devise a plan as mathematical and ambitious as that of the Giza necropolis.
In the Roman necropolis, along the Kairwan road, several interesting discoveries were made, among them a hypogeum containing several frescoes in fair preservation, containing curious figures and inscriptions, and also some inscriptions on marble or stucco.
Neferhotep had left a plot of ground in trust to the Necropolis, with the charge of administering its revenues for the payment of a minstrel, who every-year at the feast of the dead should sing the monody to the accompaniment of his lute.
As the crowd began to break up, filing back to the necropolis to resume the search for Kelemvor, Gwydion tapped Perdix on the leg.
The screen now showed a crater-field of dead cars, the frazzled heaps pummelled to the sound of tinnitus, a new necropolis of old American gods.
A force like Akha was needed to save anyone who trod in such a thronged necropolis!
Rising points of the sun at the solstices and equinoxes as observed from the Memphite necropolis.
How could the Old Kingdom Egyptians, having taken the trouble to construct the huge Giza necropolis and the rest of the Memphite monuments, fail to make any mention of the Great Sphinx?
Orion with the pattern of the Great Pyramids in the Memphite necropolis.
French group reported on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA from skeletons dug from a two-thousand-year-old necropolis in Mongolia.
Giza necropolis, site of the Great Sphinx and the three great Pyramids of Egypt, is, by any standards, an extraordinary architectural and archaeological puzzle.
Among the curious who had flocked together were many embalmers, laborers, and humble folk, who lived in the Necropolis.
It will lead us deeper into the heart of Abarrach, lead us down to the lands below, to the realm that is lettered on the map as Kairn Necros, to the city of Necropolis.
The Thebans stood together like Huge families before the pylons, waiting for the processions of priests, which they intended to join in order to march in their train round the great temple of the city, and thence to cross with the festal barks to the Necropolis.