Holocaust — meaning in English
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English meaning
- holocaust name (historical, capitalised) The mass murder of around six million European Jews by Nazi Germany during World War II.
Senses
Holocaust is used for these senses in English:
- Holocaust (historical, broadly) 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.
- burnt offering (biblical) A slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin.
- holocaust (religion) An offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes. [from 13th c.]
holocaust — full definition
- name (historical, capitalised) The mass murder of around six million European Jews by Nazi Germany during World War II.
- noun Widespread destruction or slaughter, especially on a massive scale.