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necropolis 

From Greek, denoting The City of the Dead, nowadays a churchyard, a graveyard. Also necropola. Underground necropolis is called catacombs.
Graveyard School of Poetry poets often broded over life and death surrounded by the gloomy miasma and rotting putrefactions of so rueful a place as a necropolis.
necropolis by necrotism May 30, 2006
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Necropolis 

N.

1. A city populated soully by the dead.

2. A city which has fallen. ie Atlantis
After falling into the ocean, the great city of Atlantis was rendered a veritable necropolis
Necropolis by Ender Entreiu January 5, 2004

Necropolis 

Morbid, gothic, chilly tourist attraction.

Hill on outskirts of Glasgow city, covered in with hundreds of graves - from small unmarked stones to massive mausoleums. A solitary footpath winds round the Necropolis, spiralling round the crest of the hill to the top. Found next to Glasgow Cathedral.

Creepy as shit at night. Not much better in the day but at least you can see where you're going.
'It's getting late, lets take a short cut through the Necropolis.' 'Yeah, great idea!'
Necropolis by Sam January 26, 2005

necropolis 

One of the stages of the main building of the Undead race in Warcraft.
Dammit, I can't build any grunt units right now, since my Necropolis is upgrading!
necropolis by placebo February 11, 2005

Netopolis 

The central hub of technology and innovation, a place where progress is postmodern; websurfers seek sagacious words from the Oracle that dwells there.
Whilst travelling abroad in a lonesome carriage upon the dusted roads of a forsaken existence, Martin pondered the meaning of life and spoke thus, "To Netopolis I travel this eve on the ancient infobahn."
Netopolis by waldosziak March 7, 2012

negropolis

A city in which black people will naturally thrive in.

Equal (or indefinitely opposite) to "Metropolis", but it is very urban all in all.
"Some day Chicago will turn into a real negropolis."
negropolis by Quakeulf September 9, 2005

negropolitan

A delicious combination of white, milk, and dark chocolate ice cream resembling neopolitan. However, because all of the flavors are chocolate, the suffix negro- is used.
Man - Hey ho, you want some negropolitan?
Ho - Aw lawd, hellz yeah I would like some negropolitan!

negropolitan by SillyBear489 December 20, 2008
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