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necropolitan en · ADJ

Etymology

From necropolis + -itan.

Meanings

1. Of or pertaining to a large cemetery or necropolis.
   • Humboldt had been buried not in potter's Ffield but far out in Deathsille, New Jersey, one of those vast, necropolitan developments … 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 467:

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