Definitions for genocide

genocide gen·o·cide

Spelling: [jen-uh-sahyd]
IPA: /ˈdʒɛn əˌsaɪd/

Genocide is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 216 anagrams from letters in genocide (cdeegino).

Definitions for genocide

noun

  1. the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.

Origin of genocide

1940-45; Greek géno(s) race + -cide

Examples for genocide

In a chance encounter with angry Serb mobs in the streets of Pristina he accused the Albanians of genocide.

He was referring to the genocide of Muslims during the Bosnian War.

Nuclear nightmares intermingled with Armenian and Jewish flashbacks of genocide.

genocide is defined as the extermination of a race of sapient beings.

To get a resolution about genocide passed, he devised a letter-writing campaign.

The mystery of our failure at genocide forced an unpleasant decision on Benson.

Is it the one where we condemn the genocide of Native Americans?

He didn't want to be accused of genocide, since the Lani were so human in appearance.

By WWII, Lemkin had been peddling his ideas on genocide for more than a decade.

Raphael Lemkin was, by all accounts, obsessed with genocide long before he invented a name for it.

Word Value for genocide
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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