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Holocaust
Meaning
Noun
●
In Religion:
An
offering
or
sacrifice
to a
deity
that is
completely
burned
to ashes.
●
In Religion:
A
complete
or large
offering
or sacrifice.
●
Complete
destruction
by
fire
; also,
the thing
so destroyed.
●
Extensive
destruction
of a group of
animals
or (especially) people; a
large-scale
massacre
or slaughter.
●
In Death:
Alternative letter-case form of Holocaust (“the
systematic
mass murder
(democide or
genocide
) of Jews (and, more
broadly
, of
disabled
people,
homosexuals
, Romanis, Slavs, and others)
perpetrated
by Nazi Germany
shortly
before and during World War II”); hence, the state-sponsored
mass murder
of a particular group of people in society.
Verb
●
In Religion:
To
sacrifice
(chiefly an
animal
) to be
completely
burned.
●
To
destroy
(something)
completely
, especially by fire.
●
To
subject
(a group of people) to a
holocaust
(mass
annihilation
); to
destroy
en
mass
e.
●
Alternative letter-case form of
holocaust
(“subject to a
mass
annihilation
;
destroy
en
mass
e”).
Name
●
The
systematic
mass murder
(genocide) of
six
million
Jews
perpetrated
by Nazi Germany
shortly
before and during World War II.
●
The
systematic
mass murder
(democide) of somewhere between
eleven
and
fourteen
million
people, namely
six
million
Jews and from
five
to
eight
million
others (including Romanis, Slavs,
homosexuals
, and people with physical and
mental
disabilities
),
perpetrated
by Nazi Germany
shortly
before and during World War II.
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Origin
holocaust
English
holocauste
French
holocaustum
Latin
ὁλόκαυστος
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Sourced from
Etym
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