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holocaust
(mass) | holocaust
- holokaust, masaker, vyhladenie |
holocaust
(encz) | holocaust,holocaust n: Zdeněk Brož |
holocaust
(encz) | holocaust,masakr n: Zdeněk Brož |
holocaust
(encz) | holocaust,vyhlazení n: Zdeněk Brož |
holocaust
(czen) | holocaust,holocaustn: Zdeněk Brož |
Holocaust
(gcide) | Holocaust \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.
[1913 Webster]
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.]
[1913 Webster]
3. Specifically: The mass killing of millions of Jews by the
Nazis during the period from 1933 to 1945 in Germany and
German-occupied lands; usually referred to as {The
Holocaust}. In Hebrew, the same event is referred to by
the word Shoah.
[PJC] |
holocaust
(wn) | holocaust
n 1: an act of mass destruction and loss of life (especially in
war or by fire); "a nuclear holocaust"
2: the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from
1941 until 1945 [syn: Holocaust, final solution] |
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Holocaust
(gcide) | Holocaust \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.
[1913 Webster]
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.]
[1913 Webster]
3. Specifically: The mass killing of millions of Jews by the
Nazis during the period from 1933 to 1945 in Germany and
German-occupied lands; usually referred to as {The
Holocaust}. In Hebrew, the same event is referred to by
the word Shoah.
[PJC] |
The Holocaust
(gcide) | Holocaust \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.
[1913 Webster]
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.]
[1913 Webster]
3. Specifically: The mass killing of millions of Jews by the
Nazis during the period from 1933 to 1945 in Germany and
German-occupied lands; usually referred to as {The
Holocaust}. In Hebrew, the same event is referred to by
the word Shoah.
[PJC] |
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