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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: genticide
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: crime against humanity
noun
The systematic suppression of ideas or practices on the basis of cultural or ethnic origin; culturicide.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, countable, uncountable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The elimination of an entire class of monsters by the player in roguelikes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: video-games
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To commit genocide (against); to eliminate (a group of people) completely.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
systematic killing of a racial or cultural group
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: race murder, racial extermination
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: killing, kill, putting to death
Narrower terms: Holocaust, final solution
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh1- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh1os Proto-Hellenic *génos Ancient Greek γένος (génos) Proto-Indo-European *kh2eyd-der. Proto-Italic *kaidō Latin caedō Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-eh2 Proto-Italic *-ā Latin -a Latin -cīda Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ium Latin -cīdiumder. Middle French -cidebor. English -cide English genocide 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.
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