Holocaust

Significat (Anglès)

Name

1. (historical, uncountable, usually) The systematic mass murder (genocide) of six million Jews perpetrated by Nazi Germany shortly before and during World War II.
2. (broadly, historical, uncountable, usually) 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.

Verb

Alternative letter-case form of holocaust (“subject to a mass annihilation; destroy en masse”).

Conceptes

holocaust

Sinònims

final solution

catastrophe

destruction

holocaust

ruin

Traduccions

Holocaust

Holocausto

Holokost

Holocaust

ολοκαύτωμα

Holocausto

olocausto

Schoah

Olocausto

holocausto

Ολοκαύτωμα

holocauste

Shoah

Yahudi Soykırımı

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈhɒləkɔːst/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Ellipsis of Jewish holocaust.