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NECROPOLIS [3 records]

Record 1 1999-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Urban Studies
DEF

A place (as an abandoned city or town) devoid of life and inhabited by or as if by only the dead.

OBS

plural necropolises or necropoles.

Key term(s)
  • necropole

French

Domaine(s)
  • Urbanisme
CONT

E. Mumford trace et résume le cycle d'évolution et de décadence du phénomène urbain en [...] six étapes principales. [...] mégalopolis, c'est le commencement de la fin [...] la sixième: nécropolis

Spanish

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Record 2 1997-11-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Funeral Services
  • Urban Planning
DEF

A cemetery; [especially] one of large cemeteries in or near cities.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pompes funèbres
  • Aménagement urbain
DEF

Vaste cimetière d'une grande ville.

OBS

Terme littéraire utilisé par analogie aux vastes cimetières de l'Antiquité appelés nécropoles.

Spanish

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Record 3 1997-10-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archaeology
  • Funeral Services
DEF

A large historic or prehistoric burial ground in an ancient city.

CONT

Archaeologists and historians usually call the cemetery of an ancient city a necropolis.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Archéologie
  • Pompes funèbres
DEF

Groupe de sépultures primitives, à caractère plus ou moins monumental [...]. Grand cimetière orné de monuments funéraires.

CONT

Les plus célèbres sont, en Égypte, la nécropole de Memphis [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Arqueología
  • Pompas fúnebres
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