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GENOCIDE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genocide mean?
• GENOCIDE (noun)
The noun GENOCIDE has 1 sense:
1. systematic killing of a racial or cultural group
Familiarity information: GENOCIDE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Systematic killing of a racial or cultural group
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
genocide; race murder; racial extermination
Hypernyms ("genocide" is a kind of...):
kill; killing; putting to death (the act of terminating a life)
Instance hyponyms:
final solution; Holocaust (the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945)
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