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Definition: Necropolis |
NecropolisNoun1. A tract of land used for burials. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Necropolis \Ne*crop"o*lis\, noun; plural Necropolises. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression a dead body, adjective, dead city.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Building & Civil Engineering | Term used by. . . Mumford to compare ancient cities. . . with. . . cities that are currently decaying. When a city has reached the megalopolitan stage. . . it is. . . on the downward path, necropolis is the final stage. Source: European Union. (references) |
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This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Necropolis."
Synonyms: NecropolisSynonyms: burial ground (n), burial site (n), burying ground (n), cemetery (n), graveyard (n), memorial park (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: necropolises (building & civil engineering). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Interment | Grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow house; cemetery, necropolis; burial place, burial ground; grave yard, church yard; God's acre; tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn; ossuary; bone house, charnel house, dead house; morgue; lich gate; burning ghat; crematorium, crematory; dokhma, mastaba, potter's field, stupa, Tower of Silence. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Necropolis |
| English words defined with "necropolis": Necropolises. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Necropolis (1970) | |
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| "Necropolis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.30% of the time. "Necropolis" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 91.3% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.7% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
necropolis | 37 |
necropolis record | 13 |
dragon necropolis | 3 |
necropolis awakened | 3 |
glasgow necropolis | 3 |
dragon map necropolis | 2 |
game necropolis | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "necropolis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | nekropol, varrezë (burial ground, burial place, cemetery, churchyard, graveyard). (various references) | |
Arabic | مقبرة كبيرة, مدينة الموتي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гробище на разкопан древен град, некропол. (various references) | |
Czech | mìsto mrtvých. (various references) | |
Danish | nekropolis, nekropol. (various references) | |
Dutch | necropool. (various references) | |
Finnish | nekropoli. (various references) | |
French | nécropole. (various references) | |
German | nekropolis, nekropole, totenstadt. (various references) | |
Greek | νεκρόπολη. (various references) | |
Hebrew | בית קברות (cemetery, graveyard). (various references) | |
Hungarian | negy ókori temető, nagy ókori temetkezőhely, temetkezõhely, temetkezőhely, temetõ (cemetery, churchyard, graveyard), temető (cemetery, churchyard, god's acre, graveyard, hallowed ground). (various references) | |
Italian | necropoli. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ecropolisnay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | necrópole. (various references) | |
Romanian | necropolã. (various references) | |
Russian | некрополь. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nekropola, groblje (cemetery, churchyard, god's acre, graveyard). (various references) | |
Spanish | necrópolis. (various references) | |
Swedish | begravningsplats (cemetery). (various references) | |
Thai | สุสาน (cemetery, mausoleum). (various references) | |
Turkish | mezarlık (boneyard, burial ground, cemetery, god's acre, good's acre, graveyard), kabristan (burial ground, cemetery, graveyard). (various references) | |
Ukranian | колумбарій (cinerarium, columbarium), кладовище (cemetery, churchyard, yard), некрополь, місто мертвих. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nghĩa địa (burial-ground, cemetery, god's acre, graveyard), bâi tha ma. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "necropolis": necropolises. (additional references) | |
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"Necropolis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nacropolis, necopolis, Necrepolis, necroplis, Nekropolis, Nichopoulos, Nicopolis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "necropolis" (pronounced nukrÄ"pulus) |
| 9 | -u k r Ä" p u l u s | acropolis. |
| 7 | -r Ä" p u l u s | metropolis. |
| 6 | -Ä" p u l u s | megalopolis. |
| 4 | -u l u s | anomalous, calculus, Carolus, fabulous, frivolous, garrulous, incredulous, libelous, marvelous, merciless, meticulous, miraculous, nautilus, nebulous, Oxalis, pendulous, perilous, populace, populous, querulous, ridiculous, scandalous, scrupulous, scurrilous, stimulus, syphilis, tantalus, tremulous, unscrupulous. |
| 3 | -l u s | accomplice, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, atlas, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, callous, callus, careless, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, earless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, faceless, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frictionless, fruitless, Gallus, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, meaningless, meatless, mindless, motherless, motionless, nameless, necklace, needless, odorless, overzealous, painless, palace, paperless, peerless, penniless, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, powerless, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, reckless, regardless, relentless, remorseless, restless, riskless, rootless, rudderless, ruthless, scoreless, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stylus, surplus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-l-n-o-o-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: necropoli, pecorinos, replicons. | |
-2 letters: colonies, colonise, consoler, conspire, coronels, eclosion, incloser, incorpse, licensor, orcinols, pecorino, pinocles, poisoner, precools, prolines, replicon, scorpion, snoopier, spoonier. | |
-3 letters: cineols, cloners, coilers, coiners, colones, console, coolers, coolies, coopers, copiers, cornels, coronel, creosol, crepons, crispen, cronies, epsilon, erosion, inclose, loonier, loonies, loopers, loopier, nerolis, operons, opsonic, orceins, orcinol, orioles, orpines, peloric, pencils, pilsner, pincers, pinocle, pinoles, plosion, pocosin, polices, porcine, porcino, precool, princes, proline, recoils, recoins, rosinol, scooper, snooper, splenic, splicer, spoiler. | |
-4 letters: censor, ceorls, cineol, clines, cloner, clones, closer, coiler, coiner, colies, colins, colone, coloni, colons, colors, conies, consol, cooers, cooler, coolie, cooper, copens, copers, copier, copies, cornel, corpse, cosier, cosine, crepon, cresol, cripes, crones, croons, eloins, enolic, enrols, icones, insole, irones, lesion, liners, lisper, locoes, loners, looies, looper, loosen, looser, lopers, lories, neroli, nerols, nicols, nooser, nosier, oilers, oleins, operon, opines, orcein, orcins, oriels, oriole, orison, orlops, orpine, orpins, oscine, pencil, pensil, perils, person, pilose, pincer, pinole, pliers, poiser, poison, poleis, polers, police, polies, polios, ponces, ponies, pooris, pornos, porose, precis, prices, prince, prions, prison, proles, recoil, recoin, recons, relics, reoils, repins, ripens, roscoe, scroop, senior, slicer, sloper, sniper, solion, sooner, spicer, spinel, spinor, splice, spline, splore. | |
-5 letters: ceils, ceorl, ceros, cines, cions, cires, cline, clips, clone, clons, clops, close, coils, coins, coirs, coles, colin, colon, color, cones, cooer, cools, coons, coops, copen, coper, copes, copse, cores, corns, corps, corse, cosie, cries, cripe, crisp, crone, croon, crops, eloin, enols, enrol, eosin, epics, icons, irone, irons, lenis, lenos, liens, liers, liner, lines, linos, lions, locos, loins, loner, looie, loons, loops, loose, loper, lopes, lores, loris, loser, nerol, nicer, nicol, noels, noils, noirs, noise, nolos, noose, noris, oiler, oleic, olein, oleos, olios, onces, oorie, opens, opine, opsin, orcin, oriel, orles, orlop, ornis, orpin, osier, peins, pelon, penis, peons, peril, peris, piers, piles, pines, pions, pirns, pisco, plier, plies, poise, poler, poles, polio, polis, polos, ponce, pones, pools, poons, poori, pores, porno, porns, poser, price, pries, prion, prise, prole, prone, prose, proso, recon, reins, relic, reoil, repin, repos, resin, rices, riels, riles, rinse, ripen, ripes, risen, roils, roles, roose, ropes, rosin, scion, scone, scoop, scope, score, scorn, scrip, senor, sepic, serin, since, siren, slice, slier, slipe, sloop, slope, snipe, snool, snoop, snore, socle, solei, solon, sonic, sopor, sorel, speil, speir, spice, spiel, spier, spile, spine, spire, spoil, spool, spoon, spoor, spore. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-l-n-o-o-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: necropoleis. | |
+2 letters: cyclosporine, necropolises, percolations, processional, supercooling. | |
+3 letters: cephalosporin, compressional, counselorship, cyclosporines, glycoproteins, processionals, scleroprotein. | |
+4 letters: cephalosporins, controllership, counselorships, laryngoscopies, nonreciprocals, nucleoproteins, preconsciously, processionally, recompilations, scleroproteins. | |
+5 letters: chlorpromazines, controllerships, correspondingly, introspectional, ionospherically, noncompressible, optoelectronics, overcompliances, overspeculation, uncompromisable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 65 63 72 6F 70 6F 6C 69 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. . -.-. .-. --- .--. --- .-.. .. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100101 01100011 01110010 01101111 01110000 01101111 01101100 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N e c r o p o l i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0065 0063 0072 006F 0070 006F 006C 0069 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)48716984818281787585 |
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