Phrase guide
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Alternative letter-case form of final solution (“attempted mass murder of the Jews by the Nazis”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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noun
The planned and attempted mass murder of the European Jews by the Nazis; the Holocaust.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: capitalized, historical, often
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noun
Any similar attempted or successful genocide.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
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noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see final, solution.
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noun
the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Holocaust
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Broader terms: genocide, race murder, racial extermination
History
Calque of German Endlösung, which is short for Endlösung der Judenfrage (“Final Solution to the Jewish Question”)
Across languages
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
