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Holocaust Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Holocaust? [n] an act of great destruction and loss of life [n] the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler Synonyms \| Synonyms for Holocaust: final solution Related Terms \| Find terms related to Holocaust: annihilation \| bloodbath \| blue ruin \| breakup \| burnt offering \| butchery \| carnage \| clawing \| collection \| conflagration \| consumption \| cruciation \| crucifixion \| damnation \| decimation \| depredation \| desolation \| despoilment \| despoliation \| destruction \| devastation \| disintegration \| disorganization \| disruption \| dissolution \| drink offering \| elimination \| eradication \| ex voto offering \| extermination \| extinction \| final solution \| fire \| genocide \| havoc \| heave offering \| hecatomb \| hell \| hell upon earth \| horror \| human sacrifice \| immolation \| incense \| infanticide \| inferno \| laceration \| lancination \| libation \| mactation \| martyrdom \| mass destruction \| mass murder \| massacre \| nightmare \| oblation \| offering \| offertory \| passion \| peace offering \| perdition \| persecution \| piacular offering \| pogrom \| purgatory \| race extermination \| race-murder \| rack \| ravage \| ruin \| ruination \| sacramental offering \| sacrifice \| saturnalia of blood \| scapegoat \| self-immolation \| self-sacrifice \| shambles \| slaughter \| spoliation \| suttee \| sutteeism \| thank offering \| torment \| torture \| undoing \| vandalism \| votive offering \| waste \| whole offering \| wholesale murder \| wrack \| wrack and ruin \| wreck See Also \| destruction \| devastation \| genocide \| race murder \| racial extermination Holocaust In Webster's Dictionary \Hol"o*caust\, n. [L. holocaustum, Gr. ?, neut. of ?, ?, burnt whole; "o'los whole + kaysto`s burnt, fr. kai`ein to burn (cf. {Caustic}): cf. F. holocauste.] 1. A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations. --Milton. 2. Sacrifice or loss of many lives, as by the burning of a theater or a ship. Note: [An extended use not authorized by careful writers.]

Holocaust Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Holocaust?

[n] an act of great destruction and loss of life
[n] the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler

Synonyms | Synonyms for Holocaust: final solution

Holocaust In Webster's Dictionary

\Hol"o*caust\, n. [L. holocaustum, Gr. ?, neut. of ?,
?, burnt whole; "o'los whole + kaysto`s burnt, fr. kai`ein to
burn (cf. {Caustic}): cf. F. holocauste.]
1. A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was
   consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations.
   --Milton.

2. Sacrifice or loss of many lives, as by the burning of a
   theater or a ship.

Note: [An extended use not authorized by careful writers.]

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