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Holocaust

Holocaust Meaning & Definition
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.]

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