genocide

CEFRC1

/ˈd͡ʒɛnəsaɪd/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    The planned killing of a whole national, racial, or religious group.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    The elimination of an entire class of monsters by the player in roguelikes.

Examples

  • Refugees gave accounts of the mass genocide.

  • Speaking of genocide, today is Columbus Day.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The systematic suppression of ideas or practices on the basis of cultural or ethnic origin; culturicide.

  2. 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.

  3. The systematic and deliberate destruction of a group of people; typically by killing substantial numbers of them, on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, nationality, or similar grounds.

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In context

  • The victims of the genocide were buried in mass graves spread over 25 square kilometers.

  • A genocide will always be followed by the denial that it ever happened.

  • linguistic genocide

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Origin

noun

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