An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
NECROPOLIS
cemetery, graveyard, burial site, burial ground, burying ground, memorial park, necropolis
(noun) a tract of land used for burials
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
necropolis (plural necropolises or necropoleis or necropoles or necropoli)
(chiefly, historical, also, figuratively) A cemetery; especially a large one in or near a city.
Synonyms: necropole (rare), Thesaurus:cemetery
(archaeology) An ancient site used for burying the dead, particularly if consisting of elaborate grave monuments.
Anagrams
• prosocline
Source: Wiktionary
Ne*crop"o*lis, n.; pl. Necropolises. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr.
Definition: A city of the dead; a name given by the ancients to their cemeteries, and sometimes applied to modern burial places; a graveyard.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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