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Holocaust
ˈhɒləkɔːst
Holocaust definitions
noun
holocaust
holocausts
- destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war
"a nuclear holocaust"
- the mass murder of Jewish people under the German Nazi regime during the period 1941–5. More than 6 million European Jews, as well as members of other persecuted groups such as Romani, gay people, and disabled people, were murdered at concentration camps such as Auschwitz
- a sacrifice in which the offering was burned completely on an altar