Crossword-Solution: NECROPOLIS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Necropolis | n. | A city of the dead; a name given by the ancients to their cemeteries, and sometimes applied to modern burial places; a graveyard. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “NECROPOLIS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| CEMETERY of a great town | 1 answer |
| sacred soil | 1 answer |
| great town | 1 answer |
| a cemetery or burial place | 1 answer |
| SACRED soil in or of a great town | 1 answer |
| MEMORIAL park in or of a great town | 1 answer |
| MAUSOLEUM in or of a great town | 1 answer |
| Giza attraction including the Great Pyramids | 1 answer |
| GRAVEYARD in or of a great town | 1 answer |
| DEAD, city of the | 1 answer |
| CITY of the Dead | 1 answer |
| CEMETERY in a great town | 1 answer |
| BURIAL ground in or of a great town | 1 answer |
| ANCIENT cemetery | 1 answer |
| polyandrium | 4 answers |
| memorial park | 5 answers |
| churchyard | 5 answers |
| BURYING ground | 5 answers |
| graveyard | 5 answers |
| BURIAL ground | 6 answers |
| cemetery | 7 answers |
| BURIAL place | 25 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with NECROPOLIS (5)
The step drew nearer, and a guardian in a braided cap walked listlessly through the room like a ghost stalking through a necropolis.
Before he quitted London, however, he made a pilgrimage to May Bartram's grave, took his way to it through the endless avenues of the grim suburban necropolis, sought it out in the wilderness of tombs, and, though he had come but for the renewal of the act of farewell, found himself, when he had at last stood by it, beguiled into long intensities.
VIII But woe’s me, and woe’s me, For the secrets of her eyes! In my visions fearfully They are ever shown to be As fringèd pools, whereof each lies Pallid-dark beneath the skies Of a night that is But one blear necropolis.
When the famous Hatshepsut, after the return of her expedition to Punt in the ninth year of her young consort Thothmes III, decided to build her temple at Deir el-Bahari in the necropolis of Western Thebes, she sought to emphasize her claim to the throne of Egypt by recording her own divine origin upon its walls.
One can see your game.” Till now they had been talking in low tones, impressed by the silence of the great necropolis; but little by little human interests asserted themselves in a louder key even there where their nothingness lay exposed on all those flat stones covered with dates and figures, as if death was only an affair of time and calculation--the desired solution of a problem.
Quotes with NECROPOLIS (3)
I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever.
How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.
As I walked in the dark through the tunnels and tunnels of books, I could not help being overcome by a sense of sadness. I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever. I felt myself surrounded by millions of abandoned pages, by worlds and souls without an owner sinking in an ocean of darkness, while the world that thro…
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Used 1 time in crossword archives (2012).