Holocaust

Meaning

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”).

Synonyms

final solution

catastrophe

destruction

holocaust

ruin

Translations

Holocaust

Holocausto

Holokost

Holocaust

holocausto

Holocausto

Schoah

Shoah

olocausto

Olocausto

ολοκαύτωμα

Ολοκαύτωμα

holocauste

Yahudi Soykırımı

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈhɒləkɔːst/

Etymology

Ellipsis of Jewish holocaust.