genocide
Plural: genocides
Noun
- The deliberate killing of a large group of people.
- systematic killing of a racial or cultural group
- The systematic and deliberate destruction of a group of people, typically by killing substantial numbers of them, on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, or nationality.
- The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on other grounds.
- The systematic suppression of ideas or practices on the basis of cultural or ethnic origin; culturicide.
- The elimination of an entire class of monsters by the player.
Verb
- To commit genocide (against); to eliminate (a group of people) completely.
Examples
- A genocide will always be followed by the denial that it ever happened.
- Using the word GENOCIDE in Words With Friends is technically valid but morally questionable.
Origin / Etymology
Coined by lawyer of Polish-Jewish descent Raphael Lemkin in 1943 or 1944 in reference to the Armenian Genocide (then known by other names; see: Terminology of the Armenian genocide) and the Jewish Holocaust. From the stem of Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “race, kind”) (cognate with Latin gēns (“tribe, clan”), whence genus), corresponding to geno- + -cide (“killing, killer”). Piecewise doublet of gendercide. Compare genticide.
Synonyms
race murder, racial extermination, genticide
Scrabble Score: 12
genocide: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordgenocide: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
genocide: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary