HOLOCAUST
Dictionary entry overview: What does Holocaust mean? • HOLOCAUST (noun)
The noun HOLOCAUST has 2 senses:
1. an act of great destruction and loss of life
2. the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler
Familiarity information: HOLOCAUST used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• HOLOCAUST (noun)
Meaning:
An act of great destruction and loss of life
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("holocaust" is a kind of...):
destruction; devastation (the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists)
Meaning:
The Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
final solution; Holocaust
Instance hypernyms:
genocide; race murder; racial extermination (systematic killing of a racial or cultural group)
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