holocausts

Meaning of holocausts

noun
  1. A sacrifice that is completely burned to ashes.
  2. Extensive destruction of a group (usually of people or animals), whether by deliberate agency or by natural agency (especially fire).
    1895 September 10, "ANOTHER ARMENIAN HOLOCAUST; Five Villages Burned, Five Thousand Persons Made Homeless, and Anti-Christians Organized.", in The New York Times
  3. In particular, a state-sponsored mass murder of an ethnic group, especially the Holocaust (which see).

Information about holocausts

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of holocausts is: holocaust.
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Hyphenation of holocausts

holo-causts

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
  • holocausts is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with holocausts

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