Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The systematic and planned extermination of an entire national, racial, political, or ethnic group.
Wiktionary
- n. The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on the basis of ethnicity, religion, political opinion, social status, or other particularity.
- n. Acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The systematic killing of a racial or cultural group.
WordNet 3.0
- n. systematic killing of a racial or cultural group
Etymologies
- Greek genos, race; see genə- in Indo-European roots + -cide.
Examples
“The report was about the horrors in Darfur; the Bush administration using the term genocide to describe what was happening.”
“Turkey rejects the term genocide and says between 300,000 and 500,000 Armenians, and at least as many Turks, died in combat or from starvation when Armenians rose up and sided with invading Russian forces.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“Many historians agree, but Turkey disputes the term "genocide" and claims many Turks died during fighting in eastern Turkey in 1915 and 1916.”
The Guardian: Armenian genocide denial to be banned in France as senators approve new law
“Since Turkey vehemently rejects the term genocide, what judgment should then be passed, and by whom, that will not tarnish the present generation of Turks?”
The Huffington Post: Alon Ben-Meir: Reassessing the Genocide Resolution
“Last year, Mr. Obama avoided using the term genocide in his April 24 statement.”
The Wall Street Journal: Turkey, on Edge, Watches U.S. Vote on Armenia
“Mr. Obama isn't expected to use the term genocide in his statement Saturday, analsysts say.”
The Wall Street Journal: Armenia Scraps a Border Deal With Turkey
“Obama again carefully avoided using the term genocide:”
Harut Sassounian: Obama Undermines His Credibility by Not Saying "Genocide" in Ankara
“When the reporter pressed him for not using the term genocide, Pres.”
Harut Sassounian: Obama Undermines His Credibility by Not Saying "Genocide" in Ankara
“Goldhagen has broadened the term genocide to include a wider range of human suffering, recasting the problem as eliminationism.”
“Obama would use the term genocide in his April 24 statement.”
Harut Sassounian: Turkey's Delay Tactics in Opening the Border with Armenia
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Crimes and Offences
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-cide
patricide, suicide, matricide, fratricide, regicide, insecticide, herbicide, fungicide, barbicide, ethnocide, foeticide, genocide and 4 more...
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Precise words to describe murder
Suicide, infanticide, fraticide, you name it.
homocide, filicide, infanticide, parricide, matricide, patricide, suicide, spermicide, fratricide, regicide, uxoricide, vatricide and 10 more...
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“that which produces,â€
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Gk. genés 'born, produced';
L. genus, 'kin')mutagen, mutagenesis, pathogen, pathogenesis, progeny, mitogen, parthenogenesis, transgene, mucinogen, myogenic, autogenic, endogenous and 83 more...
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genocide, superfluous, warfare, indissoluble, sentient, confound, pernicious, dispose, render, amiable, paradox, puritanical and 36 more...
chained_bear Conversation pertaining to this word on porajmos. Nov 18, 2008