holocaust – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Holocaust
n.
the mass slaughter of European civilians and especially Jews by the Nazis during World War II
holocaust
n.
total devastation, great disaster, complete destruction by fire; burnt offering; mass killing, great massacre
The Holocaust
The Holocaust (from the
Greek :
hólos, "whole" and
kaustós, "burnt"), also known as the
Shoah (
Hebrew: ,
HaShoah, "the catastrophe"), was a
genocide in which approximately six million
Jews were killed by
Adolf Hitler's
Nazi regime and its collaborators. Some historians use a definition of the Holocaust that includes the additional five million non-Jewish victims of Nazi
mass murders, bringing the total to approximately eleven million. Killings took place throughout Nazi Germany and
German-occupied territories.
Holocaust
Noun
1. the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler
(synonym) final solution
(hypernym) genocide, race murder, racial extermination
holocaust
Noun
1. an act of great destruction and loss of life
(hypernym) destruction, devastation
Holocaust (der)
nm.
holocaust, the Holocaust of European Jewry, mass genocide perpetrated in Europe by the Nazis
holocaust (de)
n.
holocaust, mass killing, great massacre
