"holocaust" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [Czech]

Head templates: {{cs-noun|m-in}} holocaust m inan Inflection templates: {{cs-ndecl|m}} Forms: inanimate [table-tags], holocaust [nominative, singular], holocausty [nominative, plural], holocaustu [genitive, singular], holocaustů [genitive, plural], holocaustu [dative, singular], holocaustům [dative, plural], holocaust [accusative, singular], holocausty [accusative, plural], holocauste [singular, vocative], holocausty [plural, vocative], holocaustu [locative, singular], holocaustech [locative, plural], holocaustem [instrumental, singular], holocausty [instrumental, plural]
  1. holocaust (the state-sponsored mass murder of an ethnic group) Tags: inanimate, masculine Synonyms: holokaust [masculine]
    Sense id: en-holocaust-cs-noun-gGAz2jzU Categories (other): Czech entries with incorrect language header

Noun [Dutch]

IPA: /ˈɦɔ.loːˌkɑu̯st/ Audio: Nl-holocaust.ogg Forms: holocausten [plural]
Etymology: From Middle Dutch holocaust, from Latin holocaustum, from the neuter of Ancient Greek ὁλόκαυστος (holókaustos). The shift to masculine was influenced by Middle French holocauste. The meaning “genocide” derives from English holocaust. Etymology templates: {{inh|nl|dum|holocaust}} Middle Dutch holocaust, {{der|nl|la|holocaustum}} Latin holocaustum, {{der|nl|grc|ὁλόκαυστος}} Ancient Greek ὁλόκαυστος (holókaustos), {{der|nl|frm|holocauste}} Middle French holocauste, {{der|nl|en|holocaust}} English holocaust Head templates: {{nl-noun|m|-en|-}} holocaust m (plural holocausten)
  1. holocaust, genocide Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-holocaust-nl-noun-SLvhhaV5 Categories (other): Dutch entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Dutch entries with incorrect language header: 47 53
  2. (dated) holocaust (complete burnt offering) Tags: dated, masculine
    Sense id: en-holocaust-nl-noun-vw~2AAY~ Categories (other): Dutch entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Dutch entries with incorrect language header: 47 53
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: Holocaust

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈhɒl.ə(ʊ)ˌkɔːst/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈhɑl.əˌkɔst/ [General-American], /ˈhoʊ.lə-/ [General-American], /ˈhɑl.əˌkɑst/ [Canada, General-American, cot-caught-merger], /ˈhoʊ.lə-/ [Canada, General-American, cot-caught-merger] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-holocaust.wav [Southern-England], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-holocaust.wav [US] Forms: holocausts [plural]
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English holocaust (“burnt offering”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman holocauste, Old French holocauste, olocauste (modern French holocaust), from Late Latin holocaustum, from Ancient Greek ὁλόκαυστον (holókauston), the neuter form of ὁλόκαυστος (holókaustos, “wholly burnt”), from ὅλος (hólos, “entire, whole”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole”)) + καυστός (kaustós, “burnt”) (from καίω (kaíō, “to burn, burn up”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂w-). The verb is derived from the noun. As regards verb sense 3 (“to subject (a group of people) to a holocaust”), compare the use of genocide as a verb. Etymology templates: {{ref|From <span class="cited-source">Gerard Hoet (<span class="None" lang="und">1728) <cite>Figures de la Bible</cite>, The Hague: Chez Pierre de Hondt, <small>→OCLC</small></span></span>.|group=n|name=n1}}, {{root|en|ine-pro|*solh₂-|*keh₂w-}}, {{glossary|noun}} noun, {{inh|en|enm|holocaust|t=burnt offering}} Middle English holocaust (“burnt offering”), {{nb...|holocaustom, holocaustum|otherforms=1}} [and other forms], {{der|en|xno|holocauste}} Anglo-Norman holocauste, {{der|en|fro|holocauste}} Old French holocauste, {{m|fro|olocauste}} olocauste, {{cog|fr|holocaust}} French holocaust, {{der|en|LL.|holocaustum}} Late Latin holocaustum, {{der|en|grc|ὁλόκαυστον}} Ancient Greek ὁλόκαυστον (holókauston), {{glossary|neuter}} neuter, {{m|grc|ὁλόκαυστος|t=wholly burnt}} ὁλόκαυστος (holókaustos, “wholly burnt”), {{m|grc|ὅλος|t=entire, whole}} ὅλος (hólos, “entire, whole”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*solh₂-|t=whole}} Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole”), {{m|grc|καυστός|t=burnt}} καυστός (kaustós, “burnt”), {{m|grc|καίω|t=to burn, burn up}} καίω (kaíō, “to burn, burn up”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*keh₂w-}} Proto-Indo-European *keh₂w-, {{glossary|verb}} verb, {{m|en|genocide}} genocide Head templates: {{en-noun}} holocaust (plural holocausts)
  1. (religion) An offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes. Categories (topical): Religion Translations (offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes): مُحْرَقَة (muḥraqa) [feminine] (Arabic), ողջակիզում (oġǰakizum) (Armenian), 燔祭 (fánjì) (Chinese Mandarin), holocaust (Dutch), holokausti (Finnish), polttouhri (Finnish), holocauste [masculine] (French), holocausto [masculine] (Galician), ჰოლოკოსტი (holoḳosṭi) (Georgian), Holokauston [neuter] (German), Holokaustum [neuter] (German), Ganzopfer [neuter] (German), Vollbrandopfer [neuter] (German), 𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌽𐍃𐍄𐍃 (alabrunsts) [feminine] (Gothic), ολοκαύτωμα (olokáftoma) [neuter] (Greek), עוֹלָה (olá) [feminine] (Hebrew), egészen elégő áldozat (Hungarian), égőáldozat (Hungarian), holocaust [apocopic] (Old Spanish), holocausto [masculine] (Old Spanish), całopalenie [neuter] (Polish), holocaust [masculine] (Polish), holokaust [masculine] (Polish), holocausto [masculine] (Portuguese), всесожже́ние (vsesožžénije) [neuter] (Russian), holocausto [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-holocaust-en-noun-yWqsUeF4 Topics: lifestyle, religion Disambiguation of 'offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes': 83 11 1 1 4
  2. (by extension)
    (religion, also figuratively) A complete or large offering or sacrifice.
    Tags: also, broadly, figuratively Categories (topical): Religion Synonyms: hecatomb
    Sense id: en-holocaust-en-noun-Qnpm~8D9 Topics: lifestyle, religion
  3. (by extension)
    Complete destruction by fire; also, the thing so destroyed.
    Tags: broadly
    Sense id: en-holocaust-en-noun-56euFpfT
  4. (by extension)
    (figuratively)
    Extensive destruction of a group of animals or (especially) people; a large-scale massacre or slaughter.
    Tags: broadly, figuratively Translations (extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter): joukkotuho (Finnish), joukkotuhonta (Finnish), holocausto [masculine] (Galician), Holocaust [masculine] (German), Auslöschung [feminine] (German), Ausmerzung [feminine] (German), Ausrottung [feminine] (German), Gruppenmord [masculine] (German), Massentötung [feminine] (German), Massenvernichtung [feminine] (German), εξολόθρευση (exolóthrefsi) [feminine] (Greek), שׁוֹאָה (shoá) (note: of people) [masculine] (Hebrew), pusztulás (Hungarian), tűzhalál (Hungarian), tűzvész (Hungarian), urupatunga (Maori), holocaust [masculine] (Polish), holokaust [masculine] (Polish), holocausto [masculine] (Portuguese), extermínio [masculine] (Portuguese), genocídio [masculine] (Portuguese), holocaust [neuter] (Romanian), exterminare în masă [feminine] (Romanian), genocid [neuter] (Romanian), холока̀уст [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), holokàust [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), förintelse [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-holocaust-en-noun-iO~M19ri Disambiguation of 'extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter': 4 3 16 54 22
  5. (by extension)
    (figuratively)
    Alternative letter-case form of Holocaust (“the systematic mass murder (democide or genocide) of Jews (and, more broadly, of disabled people, homosexuals, Romanis, Slavs, and others) perpetrated by Nazi Germany shortly before and during World War II”); hence, the state-sponsored mass murder of a particular group of people in society.
    Tags: alt-of, broadly, figuratively Alternative form of: Holocaust (extra: (“the systematic mass murder (democide or genocide) of Jews (and, more broadly, of disabled people, homosexuals, Romanis, Slavs, and others) perpetrated by Nazi Germany shortly before and during World War II”); hence, the state-sponsored mass murder of a particular group of people in society) Categories (topical): Death Translations (state-sponsored mass murder of a particular group of people in society): holocaust [masculine] (Czech), holokaust [masculine] (Czech), holocaust [masculine] (Dutch), kansanmurha (Finnish), juutalaisvaino (english: annihilation of Jews) (Finnish), holocausto [masculine] (Galician), Holocaust [masculine] (German), Massenmord [masculine] (German), Massenvernichtung [feminine] (German), γενοκτονία (genoktonía) [feminine] (Greek), שׁוֹאָה (shoá) [feminine] (Hebrew), holokauszt (Hungarian), népirtás (Hungarian), tömeges pusztítás/mészárlás (Hungarian), holocaust [masculine] (Polish), holokaust [masculine] (Polish), holocausto [masculine] (Portuguese), холоко́ст (xolokóst) [masculine] (Russian), холока̀уст [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), holokàust [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), folkmord [neuter] (Swedish), förintelse [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-holocaust-en-noun-LeuFjego Disambiguation of Death: 10 12 0 11 36 17 3 11 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 9 3 1 10 35 13 4 25 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 6 2 2 7 48 8 4 24 Disambiguation of 'state-sponsored mass murder of a particular group of people in society': 4 1 1 9 85
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hyponyms: animal holocaust, homocaust, nuclear holocaust Derived forms: holocaustal, holocaustic, oxygenation holocaust, oxygen holocaust Related terms: caustic, holo-, ethnic cleansing, pogrom

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈhɒl.ə(ʊ)ˌkɔːst/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈhɑl.əˌkɔst/ [General-American], /ˈhoʊ.lə-/ [General-American], /ˈhɑl.əˌkɑst/ [Canada, General-American, cot-caught-merger], /ˈhoʊ.lə-/ [Canada, General-American, cot-caught-merger] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-holocaust.wav [Southern-England], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-holocaust.wav [US] Forms: holocausts [present, singular, third-person], holocausting [participle, present], holocausted [participle, past], holocausted [past]
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English holocaust (“burnt offering”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman holocauste, Old French holocauste, olocauste (modern French holocaust), from Late Latin holocaustum, from Ancient Greek ὁλόκαυστον (holókauston), the neuter form of ὁλόκαυστος (holókaustos, “wholly burnt”), from ὅλος (hólos, “entire, whole”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole”)) + καυστός (kaustós, “burnt”) (from καίω (kaíō, “to burn, burn up”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂w-). The verb is derived from the noun. As regards verb sense 3 (“to subject (a group of people) to a holocaust”), compare the use of genocide as a verb. Etymology templates: {{ref|From <span class="cited-source">Gerard Hoet (<span class="None" lang="und">1728) <cite>Figures de la Bible</cite>, The Hague: Chez Pierre de Hondt, <small>→OCLC</small></span></span>.|group=n|name=n1}}, {{root|en|ine-pro|*solh₂-|*keh₂w-}}, {{glossary|noun}} noun, {{inh|en|enm|holocaust|t=burnt offering}} Middle English holocaust (“burnt offering”), {{nb...|holocaustom, holocaustum|otherforms=1}} [and other forms], {{der|en|xno|holocauste}} Anglo-Norman holocauste, {{der|en|fro|holocauste}} Old French holocauste, {{m|fro|olocauste}} olocauste, {{cog|fr|holocaust}} French holocaust, {{der|en|LL.|holocaustum}} Late Latin holocaustum, {{der|en|grc|ὁλόκαυστον}} Ancient Greek ὁλόκαυστον (holókauston), {{glossary|neuter}} neuter, {{m|grc|ὁλόκαυστος|t=wholly burnt}} ὁλόκαυστος (holókaustos, “wholly burnt”), {{m|grc|ὅλος|t=entire, whole}} ὅλος (hólos, “entire, whole”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*solh₂-|t=whole}} Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole”), {{m|grc|καυστός|t=burnt}} καυστός (kaustós, “burnt”), {{m|grc|καίω|t=to burn, burn up}} καίω (kaíō, “to burn, burn up”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*keh₂w-}} Proto-Indo-European *keh₂w-, {{glossary|verb}} verb, {{m|en|genocide}} genocide Head templates: {{en-verb}} holocaust (third-person singular simple present holocausts, present participle holocausting, simple past and past participle holocausted)
  1. (religion, also figuratively) To sacrifice (chiefly an animal) to be completely burned. Tags: also, figuratively, transitive Categories (topical): Religion Translations (to sacrifice (an animal) to be completely burned): polttouhrata (Finnish), polttaa uhrina (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-holocaust-en-verb-wpXQvA2i Topics: lifestyle, religion Disambiguation of 'to sacrifice (an animal) to be completely burned': 85 7 8
  2. To destroy (something) completely, especially by fire. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-holocaust-en-verb-TCSn0tXc
  3. To subject (a group of people) to a holocaust (mass annihilation); to destroy en masse. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-holocaust-en-verb-KK7DsOK-

Noun [Old Spanish]

IPA: /oloˈkaust/ Forms: holocaustos [plural]
Head templates: {{head|osp|noun|g=m|g2=|head=|sort=}} holocaust m, {{osp-noun|m|holocaustos}} holocaust m (plural holocaustos)
  1. Apocopic form of holocausto, burnt offering Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, apocopic, masculine Alternative form of: holocausto, burnt offering Synonyms: olocaust [alternative]
    Sense id: en-holocaust-osp-noun-my8Exc-7 Categories (other): Old Spanish entries with incorrect language header

Noun [Polish]

IPA: /xɔˈlɔ.kawst/
Rhymes: -ɔkawst Etymology: Borrowed from Latin holocaustum, from Ancient Greek ὁλόκαυστος (holókaustos). Etymology templates: {{glossary|loanword|Borrowed}} Borrowed, {{bor|pl|la|holocaustum|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Latin holocaustum, {{bor+|pl|la|holocaustum}} Borrowed from Latin holocaustum, {{der|pl|grc|ὁλόκαυστος}} Ancient Greek ὁλόκαυστος (holókaustos) Head templates: {{pl-noun|m-in}} holocaust m inan Inflection templates: {{pl-decl-noun-m-in}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], holocaust [nominative, singular], holocausty [nominative, plural], holocaustu [genitive, singular], holocaustów [genitive, plural], holocaustowi [dative, singular], holocaustom [dative, plural], holocaust [accusative, singular], holocausty [accusative, plural], holocaustem [instrumental, singular], holocaustami [instrumental, plural], holocauście [locative, singular], holocaustach [locative, plural], holocauście [singular, vocative], holocausty [plural, vocative]
  1. (biblical, historical, literary, religion) burnt offering, holocaust (slaughtered animal burnt on an altar) Tags: historical, inanimate, literary, masculine Categories (topical): Bible, Religion Synonyms: całopalenie
    Sense id: en-holocaust-pl-noun-vxeB3KNn Topics: biblical, lifestyle, religion
  2. (literary) holocaust (extensive destruction of a group of animals or people) Tags: inanimate, literary, masculine Categories (topical): Death
    Sense id: en-holocaust-pl-noun-fQaasOjs Disambiguation of Death: 21 79 Categories (other): Polish entries with incorrect language header, Polish links with manual fragments, Polish links with redundant alt parameters, Polish links with redundant wikilinks Disambiguation of Polish entries with incorrect language header: 33 67 Disambiguation of Polish links with manual fragments: 32 68 Disambiguation of Polish links with redundant alt parameters: 26 74 Disambiguation of Polish links with redundant wikilinks: 27 73
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: holokaust Related terms: Holocaust

Noun [Romanian]

Etymology: Borrowed from French holocauste. Etymology templates: {{glossary|loanword|Borrowed}} Borrowed, {{bor|ro|fr|holocauste|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} French holocauste, {{bor+|ro|fr|holocauste}} Borrowed from French holocauste Head templates: {{ro-noun|n|holocausturi}} holocaust n (plural holocausturi) Inflection templates: {{ro-decl-noun|g=n|gpd=holocausturilor|gpi=holocausturi|gsd=holocaustului|gsi=holocaust|n=|npd=holocausturile|npi=holocausturi|nsd=holocaustul|nsi=holocaust|vp=holocausturilor|vs=holocaustule|vs2=}} Forms: holocausturi [plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], holocaust [accusative, indefinite, nominative, singular], un holocaust [accusative, indefinite, nominative, singular], holocaustul [accusative, definite, nominative, singular], holocausturi [accusative, indefinite, nominative, plural], niște holocausturi [accusative, indefinite, nominative, plural], holocausturile [accusative, definite, nominative, plural], holocaust [dative, genitive, indefinite, singular], unui holocaust [dative, genitive, indefinite, singular], holocaustului [dative, definite, genitive, singular], holocausturi [dative, genitive, indefinite, plural], unor holocausturi [dative, genitive, indefinite, plural], holocausturilor [dative, definite, genitive, plural], holocaustule [singular, vocative], holocausturilor [plural, vocative]
  1. holocaust Tags: neuter
    Sense id: en-holocaust-ro-noun-unRj7fq9 Categories (other): Romanian entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "_dis1": "83 11 1 1 4",
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          "word": "ողջակիզում"
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          "sense": "offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes",
          "word": "燔祭"
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          "word": "ჰოლოკოსტი"
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          "sense": "offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes",
          "tags": [
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          "sense": "offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌽𐍃𐍄𐍃"
        },
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          "sense": "offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "egészen elégő áldozat"
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          "word": "égőáldozat"
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          "_dis1": "83 11 1 1 4",
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          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "całopalenie"
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          "_dis1": "83 11 1 1 4",
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          "word": "holokaust"
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          "tags": [
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          "word": "всесожже́ние"
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          "_dis1": "83 11 1 1 4",
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          "ref": "1808 August 6, “Spain. Proclamation to the Spanish warriors.”, in The Morning Chronicle, number 12,240, London: […] John Lambert […], →OCLC, page 2, column 3",
          "text": "Oh! and with what a noble freeness on the contrary will not that good soldier, the worthy Spaniard present himself, who, wreathed with laurels, shall run after triumph to the altar of his august mother (his country), and offer up to her in holocaust, the arms and the banners of the vanquished foe; or else testify his bravery by his blood, and body all over glorious sears.",
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          "ref": "1821 August 8, The Morning Chronicle, number 16,319, London: […] D[avid] Robertson, […], →OCLC, page 2, column 3",
          "text": "Is it because the Grand Seignior [of Turkey] does not recognise the religion of Christ, or because himself and his predecessors have so long enjoyed the privilege of shedding Christian blood at their pleasure? […] Surely the memorable facts of our [Greek] forefathers having created the arts and sciences, and propagated Christianity, furnish no good reason why their descendants should be offered up as holocausts to modern legitimacy!",
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          "ref": "1889 March 16, “All cremated alive: Horrible holocaust near Hollow Rock, Tenn.”, in The Daily American, volume XIV, number 4,571, Nashville, Tenn.: American Co., →OCLC, page 1, column 1",
          "text": "A horrible holocaust occurred near Hollow Rock, in Benton County, about 7 o'clock last night. The residence of William F. Flowers was consumed by fire.",
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          "ref": "1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Sydney, N.S.W.: Scripts, →OCLC, page 151",
          "text": "The hut was a holocaust; men fighting their way out howled and coughed on smoke.",
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          "text": "a nuclear holocaust",
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          "ref": "1871 October 1, “Northumbrian” [pseudonym], “Human holocausts in mines”, in Reynolds’s Newspaper: A Weekly Journal of Politics, History, Literature, and General Intelligence, number 1,103, London: […] [F]or the proprietors, George W[illiam] M[acArthur] Reynolds, […], and John Dicks, […], by the said John Dicks, […], →OCLC, page 3, column 1",
          "text": "Three hundred and twelve lives have been sacrificed in seven holocausts, which it would not be accurate to denominate \"accidents,\" in the Lancashire coal fields, since November, 1868. […] [P]ractices are permitted to prevail in one coal-field which cannot be sanctioned by science, and are not be justified except in one sense, that the comfort of the whole people in the distribution of fuel, and the distribution of wages through manufactures, condone the calamity of the holocaust of three hundred and twelve lives. We refuse to believe that the British people will accept any such condonation for the slaughter of three hundred and odd of their fellow-countrymen.",
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          "ref": "1895 September 10, “Another Armenian holocaust: Five villages burned, five thousand persons made homeless, and anti-Christians organized”, in The New York Times, volume XLIV, number 13,745, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 6",
          "text": "ANOTHER ARMENIAN HOLOCAUST; Five Villages Burned, Five Thousand Persons Made Homeless, and Anti-Christians Organized [article title]. […] The Daily News will to-morrow publish a dispatch from Kara, stating that fresh outrages have been perpetrated in the Erzinzian district.",
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          "ref": "1925 November, Melville Chater, “History’s Greatest Trek: Tragedy Stalks through the Near East as Greece and Turkey Exchange Two Million of Their People”, in Gilbert Grosvenor, editor, National Geographic, volume XLVIII, number 5, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 533, column 1",
          "text": "This trek, brought about by the startling recuperation of Turkey after her defeat in the World War and her subsequent triumph over the Greeks in Anatolia, eventually developed into a regulated Exchange of racial minorities, according to specific terms and under the supervision of the League of Nations. But the initial episodes of the Exchange drama were enacted to the accompaniment of the boom of cannon and the rattle of machine guns and with the settings painted by the flames of the Smyrna holocaust.",
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          "ref": "1938 February 6, “Proteus” [pseudonym], “The changing scene [Help for Franco?]”, in Gershon Agronsky, editor, The Palestine Post, volume XIV, number 3567, Jerusalem: The Palestine Post, →OCLC, page 4, column 4",
          "text": "[T]he entire Press, more particularly the French press, is worried lest there be some connection between the bloodless holocaust of German Generals and Ambassadors and the persistent reports that [Benito] Mussolini is about to intervene in Spain on the grand scale.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1953 December 22, Talbot Jennings, Jan Lustig, Noel Langley, Knights of the Round Table",
          "text": "None will emerge the victor from this holocaust.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1971, Lyndon Johnson, “\"I feel like I have already been here a year\"”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 23",
          "text": "They had discussed what the European response would be in the event of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe. President de Gaulle, according to the report, had said that the United States could not be counted on in such an emergency. He mentioned that the United States had been late in arriving in two world wars and that it had required the holocaust of Pearl Harbor to bring us into the latter.",
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          "_dis1": "4 3 16 54 22",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
          "word": "joukkotuho"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 3 16 54 22",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
          "word": "joukkotuhonta"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 3 16 54 22",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "holocausto"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 3 16 54 22",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Holocaust"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 3 16 54 22",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "Auslöschung"
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        {
          "_dis1": "4 3 16 54 22",
          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
          "tags": [
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        {
          "_dis1": "4 3 16 54 22",
          "code": "de",
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          "tags": [
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          "word": "Ausrottung"
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        {
          "_dis1": "4 3 16 54 22",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "Gruppenmord"
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        {
          "_dis1": "4 3 16 54 22",
          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "Massentötung"
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        {
          "_dis1": "4 3 16 54 22",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Massenvernichtung"
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        {
          "_dis1": "4 3 16 54 22",
          "code": "el",
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          "roman": "exolóthrefsi",
          "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "εξολόθρευση"
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        {
          "_dis1": "4 3 16 54 22",
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "note": "of people",
          "roman": "shoá",
          "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "שׁוֹאָה"
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        {
          "_dis1": "4 3 16 54 22",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
          "word": "pusztulás"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 3 16 54 22",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
          "word": "tűzhalál"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 3 16 54 22",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
          "word": "tűzvész"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 3 16 54 22",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
          "word": "urupatunga"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 3 16 54 22",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "holocaust"
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        {
          "_dis1": "4 3 16 54 22",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "holokaust"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 3 16 54 22",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "holocausto"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 3 16 54 22",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "extermínio"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 3 16 54 22",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "genocídio"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 3 16 54 22",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "holocaust"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 3 16 54 22",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "exterminare în masă"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 3 16 54 22",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
          "tags": [
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        {
          "_dis1": "4 3 16 54 22",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
          "tags": [
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "холока̀уст"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 3 16 54 22",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "holokàust"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 3 16 54 22",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
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          "ref": "1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Sydney, N.S.W.: Scripts, →OCLC, page 151",
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          "text": "a nuclear holocaust",
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          "ref": "1871 October 1, “Northumbrian” [pseudonym], “Human holocausts in mines”, in Reynolds’s Newspaper: A Weekly Journal of Politics, History, Literature, and General Intelligence, number 1,103, London: […] [F]or the proprietors, George W[illiam] M[acArthur] Reynolds, […], and John Dicks, […], by the said John Dicks, […], →OCLC, page 3, column 1",
          "text": "Three hundred and twelve lives have been sacrificed in seven holocausts, which it would not be accurate to denominate \"accidents,\" in the Lancashire coal fields, since November, 1868. […] [P]ractices are permitted to prevail in one coal-field which cannot be sanctioned by science, and are not be justified except in one sense, that the comfort of the whole people in the distribution of fuel, and the distribution of wages through manufactures, condone the calamity of the holocaust of three hundred and twelve lives. We refuse to believe that the British people will accept any such condonation for the slaughter of three hundred and odd of their fellow-countrymen.",
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          "ref": "1895 September 10, “Another Armenian holocaust: Five villages burned, five thousand persons made homeless, and anti-Christians organized”, in The New York Times, volume XLIV, number 13,745, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 6",
          "text": "ANOTHER ARMENIAN HOLOCAUST; Five Villages Burned, Five Thousand Persons Made Homeless, and Anti-Christians Organized [article title]. […] The Daily News will to-morrow publish a dispatch from Kara, stating that fresh outrages have been perpetrated in the Erzinzian district.",
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          "ref": "1925 November, Melville Chater, “History’s Greatest Trek: Tragedy Stalks through the Near East as Greece and Turkey Exchange Two Million of Their People”, in Gilbert Grosvenor, editor, National Geographic, volume XLVIII, number 5, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 533, column 1",
          "text": "This trek, brought about by the startling recuperation of Turkey after her defeat in the World War and her subsequent triumph over the Greeks in Anatolia, eventually developed into a regulated Exchange of racial minorities, according to specific terms and under the supervision of the League of Nations. But the initial episodes of the Exchange drama were enacted to the accompaniment of the boom of cannon and the rattle of machine guns and with the settings painted by the flames of the Smyrna holocaust.",
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          "ref": "1938 February 6, “Proteus” [pseudonym], “The changing scene [Help for Franco?]”, in Gershon Agronsky, editor, The Palestine Post, volume XIV, number 3567, Jerusalem: The Palestine Post, →OCLC, page 4, column 4",
          "text": "[T]he entire Press, more particularly the French press, is worried lest there be some connection between the bloodless holocaust of German Generals and Ambassadors and the persistent reports that [Benito] Mussolini is about to intervene in Spain on the grand scale.",
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          "ref": "1953 December 22, Talbot Jennings, Jan Lustig, Noel Langley, Knights of the Round Table",
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          "ref": "1971, Lyndon Johnson, “\"I feel like I have already been here a year\"”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 23",
          "text": "They had discussed what the European response would be in the event of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe. President de Gaulle, according to the report, had said that the United States could not be counted on in such an emergency. He mentioned that the United States had been late in arriving in two world wars and that it had required the holocaust of Pearl Harbor to bring us into the latter.",
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      "roman": "muḥraqa",
      "sense": "offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes",
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      "word": "ողջակիզում"
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "roman": "fánjì",
      "sense": "offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes",
      "word": "燔祭"
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      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes",
      "word": "holocaust"
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes",
      "word": "holokausti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes",
      "word": "polttouhri"
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "holocauste"
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "holoḳosṭi",
      "sense": "offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes",
      "word": "ჰოლოკოსტი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Holokauston"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Ganzopfer"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "code": "got",
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      "sense": "offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌽𐍃𐍄𐍃"
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      "code": "el",
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      "sense": "offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "ολοκαύτωμα"
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      "code": "he",
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      "roman": "olá",
      "sense": "offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "עוֹלָה"
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      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes",
      "word": "egészen elégő áldozat"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes",
      "word": "égőáldozat"
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      "sense": "offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "holokaust"
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    {
      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "holocausto"
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      "sense": "offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "всесожже́ние"
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      "code": "osp",
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      "code": "osp",
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    {
      "code": "fi",
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      ],
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      "code": "de",
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      ],
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
      "tags": [
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
      "tags": [
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Massentötung"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Massenvernichtung"
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      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "exolóthrefsi",
      "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "εξολόθρευση"
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    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "note": "of people",
      "roman": "shoá",
      "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "שׁוֹאָה"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
      "word": "pusztulás"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
      "word": "tűzhalál"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
      "word": "tűzvész"
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    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
      "word": "urupatunga"
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      "code": "pl",
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      "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "holocaust"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
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      ],
      "word": "holokaust"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "holocausto"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "extermínio"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
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      "code": "ro",
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      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "holocaust"
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    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "exterminare în masă"
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      "code": "ro",
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      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
      "tags": [
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        "masculine"
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      "word": "холока̀уст"
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    {
      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
      "tags": [
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        "masculine"
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      "word": "holokàust"
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    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "extensive destruction of a group of animals or people — see also massacre, slaughter",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
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      "word": "förintelse"
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "state-sponsored mass murder of a particular group of people in society",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "holocaust"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "state-sponsored mass murder of a particular group of people in society",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "holokaust"
    },
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      "code": "nl",
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      "sense": "state-sponsored mass murder of a particular group of people in society",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "holocaust"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "state-sponsored mass murder of a particular group of people in society",
      "word": "kansanmurha"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "state-sponsored mass murder of a particular group of people in society",
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "state-sponsored mass murder of a particular group of people in society",
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        "masculine"
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      "word": "holocausto"
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    {
      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "state-sponsored mass murder of a particular group of people in society",
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        "masculine"
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    {
      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "state-sponsored mass murder of a particular group of people in society",
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      "code": "de",
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      "code": "el",
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          "text": "Sulla once said, before [Julius] Cæsar had made much of a showing, that some day this young man would be the ruin of the aristocracy, and twenty years afterward, when Cæsar sacked, assassinated and holocausted a whole theological seminary for saying \"eyether\" and \"nyether,\" the old settlers recalled what Sulla had said.",
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        "locative",
        "singular"
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      "ipa": "/xɔˈlɔ.kawst/"
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}

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        "plural"
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        "singular"
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        "indefinite",
        "singular"
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        "genitive",
        "singular"
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        "indefinite",
        "plural"
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        "indefinite",
        "plural"
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        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
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      "form": "holocaustule",
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        "singular",
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}

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