necropolitan

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adjective

Of or pertaining to a large cemetery or necropolis.

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Meanings

adjectivenecropolitan (comparative more necropolitan, superlative most necropolitan)

comparative more necropolitan · superlative most necropolitan

  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

Origin

From necropolis + -itan.

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APA

necropolitan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/necropolitan

MLA

“necropolitan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/necropolitan. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “necropolitan,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/necropolitan.

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