Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. The destruction of a culture.
Examples
“- L'viv, 2001), 654 pp. [16] Explaining that he was combining "the ancient Greek word" genos "(race, tribe) and the Latin" cide "(killing)," he added in a footnote, "Another term could be used for the same idea, namely," ethnocide, "consisting of the Greek word 'ethnos'-nation-and the Latin word”
“The group says it wrote the prince Friday to say he will be welcome in Quebec if he apologizes for "ethnocide" of francophones after New France passed into the hands of Britain in 1763.”
“Maybe if Reagan stopped giving them guns & money & protection, they might have slowed or stopped their ethnocide, but in this case U.S. foreign policy was quite clearly on the side of the would-be genocidalists.”
“There's a word for what Arizona is attempting to do here: ethnocide.”
“On the other hand, we have made far more serious efforts at ethnocide over the last century and a half, developed and used truly horrific weapons in two world wars, etc.”
“While Iraq is in a state of lawless, Somalia-style anarchy today, it's also possible for it to turn into Rwanda levels of ethnocide.”
Vilsack, The Anti-McCain, Favors Major Troop Withdrawal From Iraq
“Tashka and his wife, Laura, have led the remote Yawanawa people in the Brazilian Amazon back from the brink of ethnocide.”
“If you won't allow them to say 'This land is OURS', you license imperialism, and de-criminalise ethnocide.”
“And that Islamic ideology drove and legitimated the Islamic ethnocide of Armenians at the turn of the century.”
“And that Catholic ideology drove and legitimated the Catholic-generated Rwandan ethnocide at the end of the century.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ethnocide’.
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-cide
patricide, suicide, matricide, fratricide, regicide, insecticide, herbicide, fungicide, barbicide, ethnocide, foeticide, genocide and 4 more...
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-cide words
aborticide to weedicide
aborticide, acaricide, algaecide, algicide, antipesticide, antisuicide, aphicide, bacillicide, bactericide, biocide, biopesticide, bullycide and 62 more...
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Apple -cide(r)?
felicide, fratricide, matricide, patricide, infanticide, sororicide, regicide, genocide, homicide, pesticide, bactericide, suicide and 36 more...
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The Other Cide of Death
Words ending in "cide"
matricide, patricide, infanticide, parricide, insecticide, filicide, acaricide, algicide, avicide, bactericide, barbicide, biocide and 59 more...
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