Pompeii

[ pom-pey, -pey-ee ]

noun

1. an ancient city in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: it was buried along with Herculaneum by an eruption of nearby Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79; much of the city has been excavated.

Pompeii

/ pɒmˈpeɪiː /

noun

1. an ancient city in Italy, southeast of Naples: buried by an eruption of Vesuvius (79 ad ); excavation of the site, which is extremely well preserved, began in 1748

Pompeii

1. A city of the Roman Empire , on the Italian seacoast, that was known for the luxury and dissipated ways of its citizens. It was destroyed in the first century by an eruption of nearby Mount Vesuvius .

Example Sentences

Like the pyroclastic flows that struck Pompeii, this one brought instant, searing death.

From Ars Technica

Only two-thirds of Pompeii has been dug up over the past three centuries, and for most of that time, the job was done with pickaxes.

From MIT Technology Review

At Pompeii, for example, researchers recently used this type of radar to help target areas for exploration in a section of the city that has remained buried under ash for 2,000 years.

From MIT Technology Review

A recent survey of a palatial house at Pompeii, for example, showed that it was built on the foundations of a much older building.

From MIT Technology Review

The domus we see here belonged to one Caecilius Iucundus, a wealthy banker from Pompeii who lived almost 2,000 years ago.

From Realm of History

Yea, OK, so Pompeii has movies with Jon Snow, songs, and millions of visitors—but is it under water?!

From The Daily Beast

I came back from doing Pompeii and that had helped me with my fighting skills.

From The Daily Beast

Pompeii is an easy target because of its size and because it is badly guarded.

From The Daily Beast

Husks of homes, some of them choked in jungular vines, furnish a tropical Pompeii for viewers on the disaster bus tours.

From The Daily Beast

Pompeii is at risk of becoming a wasteland as its ruins disintegrate to dust due to lack of maintenance.

From The Daily Beast

The view which here presents itself is much more impressive than that at Pompeii, near Naples.

From Project Gutenberg

Unlike Pompeii, it was not covered by protecting ashes, but laid openly exposed to the weather.

From Project Gutenberg

Will this farce never have an end until the escaped gas blows up the colliery, and makes of it and of us a new Pompeii?

From Project Gutenberg

What remains to us, in the mural decorations of Pompeii and the designs on vases, seem to confirm the criticisms of the ancients.

From Project Gutenberg

There is a wall painting of such a scene, found at Pompeii and reproduced in Fig. 12.

From Project Gutenberg