necropolis

necropolis englannista suomeksi

1. hautausmaa, nekropoli

0. Substantiivi

1. nekropolis, nekropoli

necropolis englanniksi

1. A cemetery; especially a large one in or near a city.

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2. (quote-book) In Two Volumes|location=Dublin|publisher=(...) Messrs. White, Byrne, W. Porter, Moore, Dornin, and William Jones|year=1793|volume=I|section=section II (The Misery and Famine of Later Years), footnote|page=120|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=S4KLwxujU18C&pg=PA120|oclc=219961034|passage=In Turkey, the tombs, according to the custom of the ancients, are always without the towns; and as each tomb has uſually a large ſtone, and ſome maſonry, they conſtitute what may almoſt be called a ſecond town, which may be named, as formerly at Alexandria, ''Necropolis'', or the city of the dead.

3. (quote-book)|year=1836|volume=II|page=61|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=3OgdAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA61|oclc=1154887351|passage=It was a lovely morning, as I said, and the Turks, who are early risers, were sitting on the graves of their kindred with their veiled wives and children, the marble turbans in that thickly-sown ''nekropolis'' less numerous than those of the living, who had come, not to mourn the dead who lay beneath, but to pass a day of idleness and pleasure on the spot endeared by their memories.

4. (quote-book)|year=1856|page=288|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=JeELAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA288|oclc=458415851|passage=It &91;(w), Paris&93; is an overcrowded, shabby, dusty, and ill-kept cemetery: Kensall Green, though incipient, is far more picturesque; and several American necropoleis beat it hollow.

5. (quote-book);(nb...)|year=1875?|page=9|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=pM0BAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA9|oclc=60884003|passage=The great main street, which ran from the eastern extremity of the city Alexandria, Egypt to the Necropolis at the western end, a distance of thirty stadia, was thronged already with eager citizens, mostly arrayed in holiday costume, and with an expression of expectation on their animated countenances.

6. (quote-book)|location=Paisley, Renfrewshire|publisher=J. and R. Parlane;(nb...)|year=1894|oclc=1064784645|newversion=reprinted as|location2=Hildesheim, Lower Saxony; New York, N.Y.|publisher2=Georg Olms|year2=1972|page2=154|pageurl2=https://books.google.com/books?id=EeeuAfSxlp0C&pg=PA154|isbn2=978-3-487-04292-3|passage=READ, WILLIAM DAVID, ... Sol-fa teacher, lecturer, and vocal composer. ... He is interred in the Glasgow Necropolis, where a handsome monument has been erected to his memory by his friends and pupils.

7. (quote-book)'s death Glasgow was a city of less than 50,000, less, that is, than the Kirkcaldy of 1951. ... The pattern of the old city was simple; let us follow it out. ... Across the ravine is the necropolis, a mountain of gravestones, with a monument of Knox|John Knox in the centre.

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9. An ancient site used for burying the dead, particularly if consisting of elaborate grave monuments.

10. (quote-book)|chapter=XIV|translator=anonymous|title=Narrative of a Religious Journey in the East in 1850 and 1851|location=London|publisher=Bentley (publisher)|Richard Bentley,(nb...)|year=1853|page=338|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=N4tDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA338|oclc=562780007|passage=These labours upon Phœnician necropoli are of great importance. ... M. Félicien de Saulcy|Louis Félicien de Saulcy, one of the first travellers who has thrown light upon these necropoli, devoted himself to a very interesting examination of the tombs of the kings, of the prophets and judges, and upon the immense necropolis that surrounds Jerusalem, like a funeral enceinte.

11. (quote-book) M. Kieffer & Co.|year=1854|page=19|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=1E0OAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA3-PA19|oclc=78077742|passage=The ancient Greeks generally buried their dead in their nekropoleis or their gardens; often on the road leading to their towns, or before the gates. This pious feeling of affection and reverence for the dead, is a touching feature in the character of the modern Greeks.

12. (quote-book)|year=1859|page=149|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZRNXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA149|oclc=166253147|passage=What shall I say of these immense Necropoleis, or Cities of the Dead, where the same care and labour were employed to embellish death, as other nations have bestowed on the adornment of life? Such an architecture could have sprung up only among a people filled with the idea of immortality, and in whose eyes earthly existence was but a fleeting passage to a future life.

13. (quote-book)|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Derby & Jackson,(nb...)|year=1860|page=60|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=OrMLAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA60|oclc=9059769|passage=The monuments of Egypt are religious, as the temples; sepulchral, as the necropoles; or triumphal, as the obelisks. ... The most splendid necropoles of Egypt are those of Memphis and Thebes, and to the necropolis of the former the pyramids of El-Geezeh, near Cairo, are especially related.

14. (quote-journal)|magazine=The Art-Student; a Magazine of the Fine Arts:(nb...)|location=London|publisher=Hall, Smart, and Allen,(nb...)|date=1 February 1865|volume=II|issue=13|page=262|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=KjIFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA262|column=2|oclc=877323759|passage=Are we not overawed by those immense temples Egypt, those prodigious palaces, those grottos hewn in the living rock, those endless necropolises, and those indestructible colossi?

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