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Definition genocide

Etymology

The word "genocide" was coined in 1943 by Polish-Jewish legal scholar Raphael Lemkin (1900–1959) referring to the Armenian Genocide and the Jewish Holocaust. From the stem of Ancient Greek ????? (génos, “race, kind”) or Latin g?ns (“tribe, clan”) (as in genus), + -cide (“killing, killer”). Compare genticide.

Noun

genocide (countable and uncountable, plural genocides)

1. The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, political beliefs, social status, or other particularities.
2. (by extension) The systematic suppression of ideas on the basis of cultural or ethnic origin; culturicide.
3. (video games, roguelikes) The elimination of an entire class of monsters by the player.

Verb

genocide (third-person singular simple present genocides, present participle genociding, simple past and past participle genocided)

1. (transitive) To commit genocide (against); to eliminate (a group of people) completely.

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