genocide

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[edit] Etymology

Coined in 1943 by Raphael Lemkin (1900–1959), a Polish-Jewish legal scholar, from the stem of Ancient Greek γένος (génos), “‘race, kind’”) or Latin gēns (“‘tribe, clan’”), + -cide.

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  • IPA: /ˈʤɛnəsaid/

[edit] Noun

Singular
genocide

Plural
countable and uncountable; plural genocides

genocide (countable and uncountable; plural genocides)

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

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systematic killing of substantial numbers of people
acts committed with intent to destroy a group
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