Definition of holocaust in English:

holocaust

noun ˈhɒləkɔːst

1Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war.
（尤指火灾、核战争造成的）大毁灭，大屠杀
a nuclear holocaust
大规模的核毁灭。
Example sentencesExamples
- Fear of chemical warfare was replaced by the fear of nuclear holocaust, and so science was again linked to mass destruction.
- He could well have a nuclear holocaust on his hands before this was over.
- It was enough to know that Israel would be a place of refuge for Jews around the world if another holocaust threatened.
- This is a racist holocaust, where people are targeted for slaughter because of their ethnicity - yet many people deny this basic truth.
- I felt like one of the survivors after a nuclear holocaust.
- Why should they, on top of everything else they go through, have to suffer the terror of anticipating a nuclear holocaust?
- The world came within an inch of nuclear holocaust during the Cuban missile crisis.
- The Cold War bred a generation obsessed with fear and concern about imminent nuclear holocaust.
- Another correspondent defines as holocausts the almost total destruction of some Maori tribes by other tribes.
- And survivors of the Rwandan genocide and the holocaust work to keep the memories of their relatives alive.
- When this song was written, people till saw the threat of nuclear holocaust as a very real thing and the lyrics describe the moment that the first bomb goes off.
- It was a real possibility that the entire world would end in a nuclear holocaust.
- Up to one million of the country's seven million people were slaughtered in a week-long holocaust.
- Most of us have long forgotten the dread of nuclear holocaust that seemed almost inevitable prior to the fall of the Soviet Union.
- For Antarctic mammals it was to be a holocaust; so many were slaughtered that by the 1830s there was virtually nothing left to kill.
- For the first time in two generations, the threat of nuclear holocaust engulfing humanity began to abate.
- His personal loss, the holocaust and the general exhaustion and destruction of the war coloured his work for many years.
Synonyms
cataclysm, disaster, catastrophe, destruction, devastation, demolition, annihilation, ravaging
inferno, fire, conflagration
massacre, slaughter, mass murder, carnage, butchery, extermination, liquidation, genocide, ethnic cleansing
1. 1.1the Holocaust The mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime during the period 1941–5. More than 6 million European Jews, as well as members of other persecuted groups, were murdered at concentration camps such as Auschwitz.
  纳粹大屠杀（1941-1945年德国纳粹当政期间对犹太人的大屠杀，超过600万的欧洲犹太人以及其他受迫害团体成员在集中营被杀害，如在奥斯威辛集中营）
2historical A Jewish sacrificial offering which was burnt completely on an altar.
〈史〉燔祭品（犹太人献祭物，在祭坛上完全焚烧）
Example sentencesExamples
- In open sacrifice, the smoke of their holocaust at the temple is sent aloft with an unspoken prayer to the old gods.

Origin

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

A holocaust was originally a sacrificial offering burned completely on an altar, from Greek holokauston, from holos ‘whole’ and kaustos ‘burned’. From the 18th century it could also mean ‘a great slaughter or massacre’, and this is the sense most widely known today. The Holocaust was the mass murder of more than 6 million Jews and other persecuted groups under the German Nazi regime between 1941 and 1945. The term was introduced by historians during the 1950s, but as early as 1942 newspapers were referring to the killing of Jews by the Germans as ‘a holocaust’. The Hebrew equivalent is sō'āh or Shoah, literally ‘catastrophe’, which is sometimes used in English.

Definition of holocaust in US English:

holocaust

noun

1Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war.
（尤指火灾、核战争造成的）大毁灭，大屠杀
a nuclear holocaust
大规模的核毁灭。
the threat of imminent holocaust
迫近的屠杀的威胁。
Example sentencesExamples
- It was a real possibility that the entire world would end in a nuclear holocaust.
- The world came within an inch of nuclear holocaust during the Cuban missile crisis.
- The Cold War bred a generation obsessed with fear and concern about imminent nuclear holocaust.
- And survivors of the Rwandan genocide and the holocaust work to keep the memories of their relatives alive.
- His personal loss, the holocaust and the general exhaustion and destruction of the war coloured his work for many years.
- Fear of chemical warfare was replaced by the fear of nuclear holocaust, and so science was again linked to mass destruction.
- When this song was written, people till saw the threat of nuclear holocaust as a very real thing and the lyrics describe the moment that the first bomb goes off.
- For the first time in two generations, the threat of nuclear holocaust engulfing humanity began to abate.
- It was enough to know that Israel would be a place of refuge for Jews around the world if another holocaust threatened.
- For Antarctic mammals it was to be a holocaust; so many were slaughtered that by the 1830s there was virtually nothing left to kill.
- This is a racist holocaust, where people are targeted for slaughter because of their ethnicity - yet many people deny this basic truth.
- Another correspondent defines as holocausts the almost total destruction of some Maori tribes by other tribes.
- Up to one million of the country's seven million people were slaughtered in a week-long holocaust.
- Most of us have long forgotten the dread of nuclear holocaust that seemed almost inevitable prior to the fall of the Soviet Union.
- Why should they, on top of everything else they go through, have to suffer the terror of anticipating a nuclear holocaust?
- He could well have a nuclear holocaust on his hands before this was over.
- I felt like one of the survivors after a nuclear holocaust.
Synonyms
cataclysm, disaster, catastrophe, destruction, devastation, demolition, annihilation, ravaging
1. 1.1the Holocaust The mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime during the period 1941–45. More than 6 million European Jews, as well as members of other persecuted groups, such as gypsies and homosexuals, were murdered at concentration camps such as Auschwitz.
  纳粹大屠杀（1941-1945年德国纳粹当政期间对犹太人的大屠杀，超过600万的欧洲犹太人以及其他受迫害团体成员在集中营被杀害，如在奥斯威辛集中营）
2historical A Jewish sacrificial offering that is burned completely on an altar.
〈史〉燔祭品（犹太人献祭物，在祭坛上完全焚烧）
Example sentencesExamples
- In open sacrifice, the smoke of their holocaust at the temple is sent aloft with an unspoken prayer to the old gods.

Origin

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

单词	holocaust
释义	Definition of holocaust in English: holocaust noun ˈhɒləkɔːst 1Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war. （尤指火灾、核战争造成的）大毁灭，大屠杀 a nuclear holocaust 大规模的核毁灭。 Example sentencesExamples Fear of chemical warfare was replaced by the fear of nuclear holocaust, and so science was again linked to mass destruction. He could well have a nuclear holocaust on his hands before this was over. It was enough to know that Israel would be a place of refuge for Jews around the world if another holocaust threatened. This is a racist holocaust, where people are targeted for slaughter because of their ethnicity - yet many people deny this basic truth. I felt like one of the survivors after a nuclear holocaust. Why should they, on top of everything else they go through, have to suffer the terror of anticipating a nuclear holocaust? The world came within an inch of nuclear holocaust during the Cuban missile crisis. The Cold War bred a generation obsessed with fear and concern about imminent nuclear holocaust. Another correspondent defines as holocausts the almost total destruction of some Maori tribes by other tribes. And survivors of the Rwandan genocide and the holocaust work to keep the memories of their relatives alive. When this song was written, people till saw the threat of nuclear holocaust as a very real thing and the lyrics describe the moment that the first bomb goes off. It was a real possibility that the entire world would end in a nuclear holocaust. Up to one million of the country's seven million people were slaughtered in a week-long holocaust. Most of us have long forgotten the dread of nuclear holocaust that seemed almost inevitable prior to the fall of the Soviet Union. For Antarctic mammals it was to be a holocaust; so many were slaughtered that by the 1830s there was virtually nothing left to kill. For the first time in two generations, the threat of nuclear holocaust engulfing humanity began to abate. His personal loss, the holocaust and the general exhaustion and destruction of the war coloured his work for many years. Synonyms cataclysm, disaster, catastrophe, destruction, devastation, demolition, annihilation, ravaging inferno, fire, conflagration massacre, slaughter, mass murder, carnage, butchery, extermination, liquidation, genocide, ethnic cleansing 1.1the Holocaust The mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime during the period 1941–5. More than 6 million European Jews, as well as members of other persecuted groups, were murdered at concentration camps such as Auschwitz. 纳粹大屠杀（1941-1945年德国纳粹当政期间对犹太人的大屠杀，超过600万的欧洲犹太人以及其他受迫害团体成员在集中营被杀害，如在奥斯威辛集中营） 2historical A Jewish sacrificial offering which was burnt completely on an altar. 〈史〉燔祭品（犹太人献祭物，在祭坛上完全焚烧） Example sentencesExamples In open sacrifice, the smoke of their holocaust at the temple is sent aloft with an unspoken prayer to the old gods. Origin Middle English: from Old French holocauste, via late Latin from Greek holokauston, from holos 'whole' + kaustos 'burnt' (from kaiein 'burn'). A holocaust was originally a sacrificial offering burned completely on an altar, from Greek holokauston, from holos ‘whole’ and kaustos ‘burned’. From the 18th century it could also mean ‘a great slaughter or massacre’, and this is the sense most widely known today. The Holocaust was the mass murder of more than 6 million Jews and other persecuted groups under the German Nazi regime between 1941 and 1945. The term was introduced by historians during the 1950s, but as early as 1942 newspapers were referring to the killing of Jews by the Germans as ‘a holocaust’. The Hebrew equivalent is sō'āh or Shoah, literally ‘catastrophe’, which is sometimes used in English. Definition of holocaust in US English: holocaust noun 1Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war. （尤指火灾、核战争造成的）大毁灭，大屠杀 a nuclear holocaust 大规模的核毁灭。 the threat of imminent holocaust 迫近的屠杀的威胁。 Example sentencesExamples It was a real possibility that the entire world would end in a nuclear holocaust. The world came within an inch of nuclear holocaust during the Cuban missile crisis. The Cold War bred a generation obsessed with fear and concern about imminent nuclear holocaust. And survivors of the Rwandan genocide and the holocaust work to keep the memories of their relatives alive. His personal loss, the holocaust and the general exhaustion and destruction of the war coloured his work for many years. Fear of chemical warfare was replaced by the fear of nuclear holocaust, and so science was again linked to mass destruction. When this song was written, people till saw the threat of nuclear holocaust as a very real thing and the lyrics describe the moment that the first bomb goes off. For the first time in two generations, the threat of nuclear holocaust engulfing humanity began to abate. It was enough to know that Israel would be a place of refuge for Jews around the world if another holocaust threatened. For Antarctic mammals it was to be a holocaust; so many were slaughtered that by the 1830s there was virtually nothing left to kill. This is a racist holocaust, where people are targeted for slaughter because of their ethnicity - yet many people deny this basic truth. Another correspondent defines as holocausts the almost total destruction of some Maori tribes by other tribes. Up to one million of the country's seven million people were slaughtered in a week-long holocaust. Most of us have long forgotten the dread of nuclear holocaust that seemed almost inevitable prior to the fall of the Soviet Union. Why should they, on top of everything else they go through, have to suffer the terror of anticipating a nuclear holocaust? He could well have a nuclear holocaust on his hands before this was over. I felt like one of the survivors after a nuclear holocaust. Synonyms cataclysm, disaster, catastrophe, destruction, devastation, demolition, annihilation, ravaging 1.1the Holocaust The mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime during the period 1941–45. More than 6 million European Jews, as well as members of other persecuted groups, such as gypsies and homosexuals, were murdered at concentration camps such as Auschwitz. 纳粹大屠杀（1941-1945年德国纳粹当政期间对犹太人的大屠杀，超过600万的欧洲犹太人以及其他受迫害团体成员在集中营被杀害，如在奥斯威辛集中营） 2historical A Jewish sacrificial offering that is burned completely on an altar. 〈史〉燔祭品（犹太人献祭物，在祭坛上完全焚烧） Example sentencesExamples In open sacrifice, the smoke of their holocaust at the temple is sent aloft with an unspoken prayer to the old gods. 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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