Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Necropolis \Ne*crop"o*lis\, n.; pl. {Necropolises}. [NL., fr.
   Gr. ?; ? a dead body, adj., dead + ? city.]
   A city of the dead; a name given by the ancients to their
   cemeteries, and sometimes applied to modern burial places; a
   graveyard.