Definitions for holocaust

holocaust hol·o·caust

Spelling: [hol-uh-kawst, hoh-luh-]
IPA: /ˈhɒl əˌkɔst, ˈhoʊ lə-/

Holocaust is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 432 anagrams from letters in holocaust (achloostu).

Definitions for holocaust

noun

  1. a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
  2. a sacrifice completely consumed by fire; burnt offering.
  3. (usually initial capital letter) the systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in Nazi concentration camps during World War II (usually preceded by the).
  4. any mass slaughter or reckless destruction of life.

Origin of holocaust

1200-50; Middle English Late Latin holocaustum (Vulgate) Greek holókauston (Septuagint), neuter of holókaustos burnt whole. See holo-, caustic

Examples for holocaust

Several of them disputed the figure of six million Jewish deaths in the holocaust.

Next day the ceremony was to be continued by a holocaust of pigs.

Dugommier would listen to no such proposition for a holocaust.

In the Jewish community, Christians who saved Jews from the holocaust are known as “righteous gentiles.”

However, Brunner was not the only perpetrator of the holocaust mooching around the streets of the Syrian capital.

It is to explain that and to ask your cooperation in warding off the holocaust that I have sent for you.

Yet even in this holocaust there were degrees, gradations of sacrifice.

That word “denialism” is particularly profane, with its unsubtle invocation of the holocaust.

Mirla, we know, is out of the question; it is a holocaust of fire.

Belzberg had grown up learning about WWII and visiting holocaust museums since she was a young girl.

Word Value for holocaust
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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