necropolitan

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English

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Etymology

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From necropolis +‎ -itan.[1]

Adjective

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necropolitan (comparative more necropolitan, superlative most necropolitan)

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

References

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  1. ^ “necropolitan, adj.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠‎[1], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000, archived from the original on 2023-09-13.
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