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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on the basis of ethnicity, religion, political opinion, social status, or other particularity.
  2. n. Acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or a significant portion of, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The systematic killing of a racial or cultural group.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. systematic killing of a racial or cultural group

Etymologies

  1. Coined in 1943 by Raphael Lemkin (1900–1959), a Polish-Jewish legal scholar, to describe what the Turkish government (ca 1915–18) perpetrated against the Armenian people, now called the Armenian Genocide. From the stem of Ancient Greek γένος (génos, "race, kind") or Latin gēns ("tribe, clan") (as in genus), +‎ -cide (“killing, killer”). (Wiktionary)
  2. Greek genos, race; see genə- in Indo-European roots + -cide. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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