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necropolitan

necropolitan adjective: of or pertaining to a large cemetery or necropolis.

Adjective

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

Forms of necropolitan

comparativemore necropolitan
superlativemost necropolitan

Origin of necropolitan

From necropolis + -itan.

Questions about necropolitan

What does necropolitan mean?
Necropolitan means of or pertaining to a large cemetery or necropolis.
What part of speech is necropolitan?
Necropolitan is an adjective.

Words near necropolitan in the dictionary

  1. necropoleis
  2. necropoles
  3. necropoli
  4. necropolis
  5. necropolises
  6. necropolitan
  7. necropolitic
  8. necropolitical
  9. necropolitically
  10. necropolitics
  11. necropost

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