Synonyms for holocaust
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : hol-uh-kawst, hoh-luh- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɒl əˌkɔst, ˈhoʊ lə- |
Top 10 synonyms for holocaust
Définition of holocaust
Origin :- mid-13c., "sacrifice by fire, burnt offering," from Greek holokauston "a thing wholly burnt," neuter of holokaustos "burned whole," from holos "whole" (see holo-) + kaustos, verbal adjective of kaiein "to burn." Originally a Bible word for "burnt offerings," given wider sense of "massacre, destruction of a large number of persons" from 1833. The Holocaust "Nazi genocide of European Jews in World War II," first recorded 1957, earlier known in Hebrew as Shoah "catastrophe." The word itself was used in English in reference to Hitler's Jewish policies from 1942, but not as a proper name for them.
- Auschwitz makes all too clear the principle that the human psyche can create meaning out of anything. [Robert Jay Lifton, "The Nazi Doctors"]
- noun widespread destruction
- Dugommier would listen to no such proposition for a holocaust.
- Extract from : « The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte » by William Milligan Sloane
- Yet even in this holocaust there were degrees, gradations of sacrifice.
- Extract from : « Woman's Work in the Civil War » by Linus Pierpont Brockett
- Mirla, we know, is out of the question; it is a holocaust of fire.
- Extract from : « Walls of Acid » by Henry Hasse
- It is to explain that and to ask your cooperation in warding off the holocaust that I have sent for you.
- Extract from : « The Copper-Clad World » by Harl Vincent
- Next day the ceremony was to be continued by a holocaust of pigs.
- Extract from : « Celebrated Travels and Travellers » by Jules Verne
- What difference between the holocaust of a witch and that of two vile criminals?
- Extract from : « A German Pompadour » by Marie Hay
- A cry of fire would have created a holocaust in that fire-trap.
- Extract from : « Crimes of Charity » by Konrad Bercovici
- Richard, Richard Sydney, you have made a holocaust of your life, and lo!
- Extract from : « Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXVI, July 1852, Vol. V » by Various
- Ferriday the Magnificent was playing with holocaust when he set a match to Kedzie.
- Extract from : « We Can't Have Everything » by Rupert Hughes
- Even this desert is mute evidence of the holocaust; if one needs evidence.
- Extract from : « Shock Treatment » by Stanley Mullen
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