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   holocaust

   /ˈhɒləkɔːst/

   noun

   • 1. destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war: "a nuclear holocaust"
   • ▪ the mass murder of Jewish people under the German Nazi regime during the period 1941–5. More than 6 million European Jews, as well as members of other persecuted groups such as Romani, gay people, and disabled people, were murdered at concentration camps such as Auschwitz.
   • 2. a Jewish sacrificial offering that was burned completely on an altar. historical

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French holocauste, via late Latin from Greek holokauston, from holos ‘whole’ + kaustos ‘burnt’ (from kaiein ‘burn’).

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