holocaust
nounEtymology
The noun is derived from Middle English holocaust (“burnt offering”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman holocauste, Old French holocauste, olocauste (modern French holocaust), from Late Latin holocaustum, from Ancient Greek ὁλόκαυστον (holókauston), the neuter form of ὁλόκαυστος (holókaustos, “wholly burnt”), from ὅλος (hólos, “entire, whole”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole”)) + καυστός (kaustós, “burnt”) (from καίω (kaíō, “to burn, burn up”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂w-). By surface analysis, holo- + -caust. The verb is derived from the noun. As regards verb sense 3 (“to subject (a group of people) to a holocaust”), compare the use of genocide as a verb.
- derived from *keh₂w-✻
- derived from ὁλόκαυστον
- derived from holocaustum
- derived from holocauste
- derived from holocauste
Definitions
An offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes.
A complete or large offering or sacrifice.
- Inſnar'd ſhe was in Shechems Treachery, / And, ſilly Mayden, ſuddenly became / An Holocauſt to Luſts unhappy Flame.
Complete destruction by fire
Complete destruction by fire; also, the thing so destroyed.
- A horrible holocaust occurred near Hollow Rock, in Benton County, about 7 o'clock last night. The residence of William F. Flowers was consumed by fire.
- The hut was a holocaust; men fighting their way out howled and coughed on smoke.
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Extensive destruction of a group of animals or (especially) people
Extensive destruction of a group of animals or (especially) people; a large-scale massacre or slaughter.
- a nuclear holocaust
Alternative letter-case form of Holocaust (“the systematic mass murder (democide or…
Alternative letter-case form of Holocaust (“the systematic mass murder (democide or genocide) of Jews (and, more broadly, of disabled people, homosexuals, Romanis, Slavs, and others) perpetrated by Nazi Germany shortly before and during World War II”); hence, the state-sponsored mass murder of a particular group of people in society.
To sacrifice (chiefly an animal) to be completely burned.
- Such acts muſt needs be his, who did deviſe / By crying Altars down, to ſacrifice / To private malice; where you might have ſeen / His conſcience holocauſted to his ſpleen.
- Dionysus, once the great goat-god, turned into horned and hooved Satan, the scapegoat, who was banished (as the escape-goat) and later sacrificially burned (holocausted).
To destroy (something) completely, especially by fire.
- The meek and candid persecutor, Cardinal [Reginald] Pole, who killed and took possession when [Thomas] Cranmer was holocausted, built the chapel, and became the voucher for the truth of the absurd legend.
- I at once holocausted / My clothes to stamp out the infection—infection.
- A "holocaust of humdrum" is a very vile phrase, especially when you do not mean that the humdrum is holocausted, but that it holocausts something or somebody else.
To subject (a group of people) to a holocaust (mass annihilation)
To subject (a group of people) to a holocaust (mass annihilation); to destroy en masse.
- Over the centuries, we [Jews] were expelled, pogromed, crusaded, inquisitioned, jihaded, and holocausted out of countries that we helped to make great.
- Some of these unshared poems are quite lengthy, about 90 lines each, and they work off the historical fact that Isaac was indeed holocausted, not once, but many times. And as a result, much of Europe and Islam are now happily free of Jews.
The systematic mass murder (genocide) of an estimated six million European Jews…
The systematic mass murder (genocide) of an estimated six million European Jews perpetrated by Nazi Germany during World War II.
- Among Soloway’s congregants injured in the attack was Barbara Steinmetz, an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor who has become one of the most poignant symbols of the attack.
The systematic mass murder (democide) perpetrated by Nazi Germany of somewhere between…
The systematic mass murder (democide) perpetrated by Nazi Germany of somewhere between eleven and fourteen million people they considered subhuman, namely six million Jews and from five to eight million others (including Romanis, Slavs, homosexuals, and people with physical and mental disabilities).
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:Holocaust.
Alternative letter-case form of holocaust (“subject to a mass annihilation
Alternative letter-case form of holocaust (“subject to a mass annihilation; destroy en masse”).
The neighborhood
- synonymShoahgenocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany
- synonymthe Nazi genocide
- neighborcaustic
- neighborholo-
- neighborethnic cleansing
- neighborpogrom
- neighboranimal holocaust
- neighborhomocaust
- neighbornuclear holocaust
- neighborholocaustgenocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany
- neighborgenocidegenocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany
- neighbormass murdergenocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany
- neighbordemocideorganized mass murder of people of any ethnicity
- neighborShoahgenocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA