Holocaust

Meaning of Holocaust

noun
  1. destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war.
    a nuclear holocaust
  2. a Jewish sacrificial offering that was burned completely on an altar.

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

Information about Holocaust

  • It is a name.
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Hyphenation of Holocaust

Holo-caust

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
  • Holocaust is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Holocaust synonyms

Meaning a sudden violent political or social upheaval:

cataclysm

Meaning a sudden accident or a natural catastrophe that causes great damage or loss of life:

disaster

Meaning an event causing great and usually sudden damage or suffering; a disaster:

catastrophe

Meaning the action or process of causing so much damage to something that it no longer exists or cannot be repaired:

destruction

Meaning great destruction or damage:

devastation

Meaning the action or process of demolishing or being demolished:

demolition

Meaning complete destruction or obliteration:

annihilation

Meaning cause severe and extensive damage to:

ravaging

Meaning a large fire that is dangerously out of control:

inferno

Meaning a destructive burning of something:

fire

Meaning an extensive fire which destroys a great deal of land or property:

conflagration

Meaning an indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of many people:

massacre

Meaning the killing of a large number of people or animals in a cruel or violent way:

slaughter

Meaning the killing of a large number of people:

carnage

Meaning the work of slaughtering animals and preparing them for sale as meat:

butchery

Meaning killing, especially of a whole group of people or animals:

extermination

Meaning the process of liquidating a business:

liquidation

Meaning the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group:

genocide

Words that rhyme with Holocaust

Aust, hippocaust, holocaust, hypocaust, postholocaust, Faust, Panzerfaust, faust, infaust, exhaust, haust, inexhaust, inhaust, kinkhaust, multiexhaust, overexhaust, preexhaust

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