"policide" meaning in English

See policide in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: Coined based on Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis, “city; state”) and the suffix -cide. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|grc|πόλις||city; state}} Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis, “city; state”), {{affix|en|-cide|id1=killing}} -cide Head templates: {{en-noun|?}} policide
  1. The intentional destruction of a nation.
    Sense id: en-policide-en-noun-xMaE9JPX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -cide (killing), English undefined derivations, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 52 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -cide (killing): 53 47 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 54 46 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 53 47 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 54 46
  2. The intentional destruction of political activity in a society.
    Sense id: en-policide-en-noun-o2iEBYG3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -cide (killing), English undefined derivations, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 52 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -cide (killing): 53 47 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 54 46 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 53 47 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 54 46
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "πόλις",
        "4": "",
        "5": "city; state"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis, “city; state”)",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "-cide",
        "id1": "killing"
      },
      "expansion": "-cide",
      "name": "affix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Coined based on Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis, “city; state”) and the suffix -cide.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "?"
      },
      "expansion": "policide",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "48 52",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "53 47",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -cide (killing)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "54 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English undefined derivations",
          "parents": [
            "Undefined derivations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "53 47",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "54 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The intentional destruction of a nation."
      ],
      "id": "en-policide-en-noun-xMaE9JPX",
      "links": [
        [
          "intentional",
          "intentional"
        ],
        [
          "destruction",
          "destruction"
        ],
        [
          "nation",
          "nation"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "48 52",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "53 47",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -cide (killing)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "54 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English undefined derivations",
          "parents": [
            "Undefined derivations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "53 47",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "54 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Steve J. Stern, Reckoning with Pinochet: The Memory Question in Democratic Chile, 1989–2006:",
          "text": "In Chile the project of policide—annihilating the Left and more broadly, Center and Left cultural understandings of politics as a process of popular mobilization, via massive killing and abduction of real and alleged Left activists, complemented by additional layers of persecution and fright heaped on dissidents of any political stripe—yielded issues of comprehensibility and representation similar to those in classic cases of genocide.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The intentional destruction of political activity in a society."
      ],
      "id": "en-policide-en-noun-o2iEBYG3",
      "links": [
        [
          "intentional",
          "intentional"
        ],
        [
          "destruction",
          "destruction"
        ],
        [
          "political",
          "political"
        ],
        [
          "activity",
          "activity"
        ],
        [
          "society",
          "society"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "policide"
  ],
  "word": "policide"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with unknown or uncertain plurals",
    "English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
    "English terms suffixed with -cide (killing)",
    "English undefined derivations",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "πόλις",
        "4": "",
        "5": "city; state"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis, “city; state”)",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "-cide",
        "id1": "killing"
      },
      "expansion": "-cide",
      "name": "affix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Coined based on Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis, “city; state”) and the suffix -cide.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "?"
      },
      "expansion": "policide",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The intentional destruction of a nation."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "intentional",
          "intentional"
        ],
        [
          "destruction",
          "destruction"
        ],
        [
          "nation",
          "nation"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Steve J. Stern, Reckoning with Pinochet: The Memory Question in Democratic Chile, 1989–2006:",
          "text": "In Chile the project of policide—annihilating the Left and more broadly, Center and Left cultural understandings of politics as a process of popular mobilization, via massive killing and abduction of real and alleged Left activists, complemented by additional layers of persecution and fright heaped on dissidents of any political stripe—yielded issues of comprehensibility and representation similar to those in classic cases of genocide.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The intentional destruction of political activity in a society."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "intentional",
          "intentional"
        ],
        [
          "destruction",
          "destruction"
        ],
        [
          "political",
          "political"
        ],
        [
          "activity",
          "activity"
        ],
        [
          "society",
          "society"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "policide"
  ],
  "word": "policide"
}

Download raw JSONL data for policide meaning in English (1.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). 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.