"libricide" meaning in English

See libricide in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: libricides [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} libricide (countable and uncountable, plural libricides)
  1. (rare) The destruction of books. Wikipedia link: Book burning Tags: countable, rare, uncountable Synonyms: biblioclasm

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for libricide meaning in English (1.1kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "libricides",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "libricide (countable and uncountable, plural libricides)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -cide (killing)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The destruction of books."
      ],
      "id": "en-libricide-en-noun-JEh7~xup",
      "links": [
        [
          "destruction",
          "destruction"
        ],
        [
          "book",
          "book"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) The destruction of books."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "biblioclasm"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "rare",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Book burning"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "libricide"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "libricides",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "libricide (countable and uncountable, plural libricides)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -cide (killing)",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The destruction of books."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "destruction",
          "destruction"
        ],
        [
          "book",
          "book"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) The destruction of books."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "rare",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Book burning"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "biblioclasm"
    }
  ],
  "word": "libricide"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-06 using wiktextract (6c02f21 and 0136956). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.