Definitions for: Holocaust


[n] an act of great destruction and loss of life
[n] the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler



Webster (1913) Definition: Hol"o*caust, n. [L. holocaustum, Gr. ?, neut. of ?,
?, burnt whole; "o'los whole + kaysto`s burnt, fr. kai`ein to
burn (cf. Caustic): cf. F. holocauste.]
1. A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was
consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations.
--Milton.

2. Sacrifice or loss of many lives, as by the burning of a
theater or a ship.

Note: [An extended use not authorized by careful writers.]

Synonyms: final solution

See Also: destruction, devastation, genocide, race murder, racial extermination

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