Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Slaughter of the people.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare Slaughter of the people.

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  • noun slaughter of the people; a massacre

Etymologies

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Latin populus people + caedere to kill.

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