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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Holocaust \Hol"o*caust\, n. [L. holocaustum, Gr. ?, neut. of ?, ?, burnt whole; "o'los whole + kaysto`s burnt, fr. kai`ein to burn (cf. Caustic): cf. F. holocauste.]
A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations.
--Milton.-
Sacrifice or loss of many lives, as by the burning of a theater or a ship.
Note: [An extended use not authorized by careful writers.]
Specifically: The mass killing of millions of Jews by the Nazis during the period from 1933 to 1945 in Germany and German-occupied lands; usually referred to as The Holocaust. In Hebrew, the same event is referred to by the word Shoah.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.\n\nAuschwitz makes all too clear the principle that the human psyche can create meaning out of anything.
[Robert Jay Lifton, "The Nazi Doctors"]
Wiktionary
n. 1 A sacrifice that is completely burned to ashes. (from the 13th c) 2 The annihilation or near-annihilation of a group of animals or people, whether by natural or deliberate agency. (from the 19th c) 3 The state-sponsored mass murder of an ethnic group. In particular, the Holocaust (''which see''). (from the 20th c) 4 An inferno or fire disaster.
WordNet
n. an act of great destruction and loss of life
the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler [syn: final solution]
Wikipedia
The Holocaust was a genocide perpetrated by the Nazis, that killed around 11 million people, the majority of whom were Jews.
Holocaust may also refer to:
Holocaust is a heavy metal band which is based in Edinburgh, Scotland, founded in 1977 while still at high school.
Influenced by Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Motörhead, UFO, Led Zeppelin, Rush and Budgie, the original lineup featured guitarists John Mortimer and Ed Dudley, vocalist Gary Lettice, bassist Robin Begg and drummer Nick Brockie. In 1983, guitar player Ed Dudley left the band, forming and releasing an album under the moniker Hologram.
The John Mortimer-led Holocaust incorporated many progressive metal, thrash metal and post-punk influences into its sound, releasing complex pieces such as the "Sound of Souls" EP and concept album "Covenant". The band's current 3-piece lineup has remained the same since 2003, releasing the album "Predator" in December 2015.
A holocaust is a religious animal sacrifice that is completely consumed by fire. The word derives from the Ancient Greek holocaustos (ὁλόκαυστος from ὅλος "whole" and καυστός "burnt"), which is used solely for one of the major forms of sacrifice.
Holocaust is a fictional character in the Milestone and DC Comics universes. Created as part of the Blood Syndicate for Milestone Media, the character has since gone on to become a gangster and supervillain.
Holocaust is an American television miniseries broadcast in four parts in 1978 on the NBC television network. The series tells the story of the Holocaust from the perspective of the (fictional) Weiss family of German Jews and that of a rising member of the SS, who gradually becomes a merciless war criminal. Holocaust highlighted numerous important events which occurred up to and during World War II, such as Kristallnacht, the creation of Jewish ghettos and later, the use of gas chambers. Although the miniseries won several awards and received critical acclaim, it was criticized by some, including noted Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel, who described it as "untrue and offensive."
The series was presented in four parts:
- Part 1: The Gathering Darkness (original airdate: April 16, 1978)
- Part 2: The Road to Babi Yar (original airdate: April 17, 1978)
- Part 3: The Final Solution (original airdate: April 18, 1978)
- Part 4: The Saving Remnant (original airdate: April 19, 1978)
Holocaust is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in X-Men Alpha (February 1995), and was created by Scott Lobdell and Roger Cruz; however, a character with the same name and similar appearance (without armor) was featured in Stryfe's Strike Files (January 1993), two years before X-Men Alpha was released (the information on Holocaust in Stryfe's Strike Files seems to support an understanding that both versions of the character are one and the same).
Usage examples of "holocaust".
German populace is in the actions of enslavement and murder, beginning with the exclusionary legislation of the early thirties and culminating in the Holocaust.
Eschaton from rotisserie-league holocaust games played with protractors and PCs around kitchen tables.
One school of thought claims a world of grass and insects, another fantasizes about one that rapidly repopulates itself as if the atomic holocaust had never burned across the sky.
In a way, he was never of us, but only with us, he who was a Stoth priest even before the holocaust.
Buildings, forests, jungles were seared to ash by the holocaust, and in the midst of the inferno, she saw the uncomprehending dark eyes of a little child.
Who would not shudder at such a hapless holocaust, where ink is offered up instead of blood, where the glowing ashes of crackling parchment were encarnadined with blood, where the devouring flames consumed so many thousands of innocents in whose mouth was no guile, where the unsparing fire turned into stinking ashes so many shrines of eternal truth!
Yusef Shah, the Afridi chief, his three headmen and his American ally, and who had turned the friendly conference suddenly into a holocaust of murder.
However, to return in thought to the past, of which our present is the continuation: the old Biblical ideal of offering a holocaust to Yahweh by massacring every living thing in a captured town or city was but the Hebrew version of a custom general to the early Semites: the Moabites, the Amorites, the Assyrians, and all.
Biblical ideal of offering a holocaust to Yahweh by massacring every living thing in a captured town or city was but the Hebrew version of a custom general to the early Semites: the Moabites, the Amorites, the Assyrians, and all.
Then Braker had landed the ship, after escaping the holocaust that had shattered that before-the-asteroids world!
By the flaring holocaust light the toothed wheels, the soot-blackened timber cage of the raised grinders seemed more than ever some Dantean vision of torment.
His second fieldpiece soon-added its fire to the holocaust below, then the third.
Communications broke down during the holocaust and, without the modern fire jumpers and lookout advance warnings we have today, Hellmouth was doomed.
Confederation imposed a thirty-year sanction against Omuta for its part in the Garissan holocaust of 2581, prohibiting both trade and travel to the star system.
Heliopolis - Re-Harakhte, the Horizon-Sun - we saw silhouetted against its vermeil holocaust the black outlines of the Pyramids of Gizeh - the palaeogean tombs there were hoary with a thousand years when Tut-Ankh-Amen mounted his golden throne in distant Thebes.