English to Afrikaans Meaning of necropolis - necro

Necropolis :

necro

noun

necro, begraafplaas, graf

Necropolis :: necroNecropolises :: necro polis

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Definitions of necropolis in English

Noun(1) a tract of land used for burials

Examples of necropolis in English

(1) This vast necropolis of some two and a half million tombs, some with fractured columns and chipped headstones, still bears witness to the ferocity of second world-war bombing raids.(2) Just 300 metres away are the latest archeological excavations of a necropolis dating back 3000 years├ö├ç┬¬(3) The remodelled market is the most recent layer in a rich architectural geology that dates back to a Roman necropolis , unearthed during excavations for the new building.(4) They battled a fight already lost in the necropolis of what these teenagers knew as home, that was now nothing more then an ocean of volcanic emission.(5) Further, in many cases temple overseers were laymen attached to other state services, and the necropolis workmen (a state body) were frequently given food provisions by the temples.(6) In all, it is enough memorialising to make you see Lower Manhattan as one vast necropolis .(7) In Ethiopia the concept of tombs has been traced back 3,700 years with the discovery of a stone necropolis in the south-eastern area of Awash Chercher.(8) Nowhere is this more apparent than Westminster abbey, which he established as the royal necropolis .(9) This car dealer, based near Modena, has decided to preserve a Roman necropolis discovered during construction work for his new location and to make a museum out of it.(10) In 1964, a group of archaeologists discovered an Egyptian tomb in the necropolis of Saqqara.(11) It is located in the city of Giza, a necropolis of ancient Memphis, and today it is part of Cairo, Egypt.(12) It studied the cultural level of a chalcolithic population centre and its adjacent necropolis .(13) Rehabilitating the necropolis is clearly a priority with the culture department, and it is obvious that any sustainable effort in this regard can only be done in conjunction with the Tourism department.(14) They were to lie at rest in specially designed and constructed necropolises .(15) The aerial campaigns turned many German cities into vast necropolises , resulting in an estimated 600,000 (primarily civilian) deaths and millions of internal refugees.(16) Unfortunately, it's common for exhaustion or storms to defeat many birds before they make it home and they can often be found in large numbers on their sandy necropolises .

(1) stiff neck ::

stywe nek

(2) pain in the neck ::

pyn in die nek

(3) the neck ::

die nek

(4) long neck ::

lang nek

(5) a pain in the neck ::

n pyn in die nek

(6) crew neck ::

bemanning nek

(7) neck and neck ::

nek en nek

(8) neck brace ::

nekstut

(9) neck of the woods ::

nek van die bos

(10) round neck ::

ronde nek

Synonyms

Noun

1. cemetery ::

begraafplaas

2. graveyard ::

begraafplaas

3. churchyard ::

kerkhof

4. burial ground ::

begraafplaas

5. boneyard ::

boneyard

6. potter's field ::

gebied pottebakker

Different Forms

necropolis, necropolises

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