genocide

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The systematic and deliberate destruction of a group of people, typically by killing substantial numbers of them, on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, or nationality.
2. (broadly, countable, uncountable) The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on other grounds.
3. (broadly, countable, uncountable) The systematic suppression of ideas or practices on the basis of cultural or ethnic origin; culturicide.
4. (countable, uncountable) The elimination of an entire class of monsters by the player.

Verb

To commit genocide (against); to eliminate (a group of people) completely.

Synonyms

holocaust

racial extermination

race murder

massacre

decimation

ethnic cleansing

social status

mass killing

destruction

Translations

génocide

Völkermord

genocidio

genocidio

γενοκτονία

genocídio

Genozid

genocidi

genocide

soykırım

volkerenmoord

genocidi

القتل العرقي

إبادة جماعية

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈd͡ʒɛnəsaɪd/

Etymology

Coined by lawyer of Polish-Jewish descent Raphael Lemkin in 1943 or 1944 in reference to the Armenian Genocide (then known by other names; see: Terminology of the Armenian genocide) and the Jewish Holocaust. From the stem of Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “race, kind”) (cognate with Latin gēns (“tribe, clan”), whence genus), corresponding to geno- + -cide (“killing, killer”). Piecewise doublet of gendercide. Compare genticide.