Sense

1. city of the dead

Examples

• εἶθ’ ἡ Νεκρόπολισ τὸ προάστειον, ἐν ᾧ κῆποί τε πολλοὶ καὶ ταφαὶ καὶ καταγωγαὶ πρὸσ τὰσ ταριχείασ τῶν νεκρῶν ἐπιτήδειαι. (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 1 20:4)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.