Definitions for genocides

genocides gen·o·cide

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

Genocides is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 421 anagrams from letters in genocides (cdeeginos).

Definitions for genocides

noun

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

Origin of genocides

1940-45; Greek géno(s) race + -cide

Examples for genocides

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

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

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

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

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

Nuclear nightmares intermingled with Armenian and Jewish flashbacks of genocide.

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

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

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

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

Word Value for genocides
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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