holocaust
An offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashesAn offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes.
» No holocaust must ever happen again.
Значение
значений: 4An offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes.
Holokauston, Holokaustum, Ganzopfer
всесожже́ниеvsesožžénije
(также, шире, переносно)A complete or large offering or sacrifice.
(шире)Complete destruction by fire; also, the thing so destroyed.
an act of mass destruction and loss of life (especially in war or by fire)
(шире, переносно)Extensive destruction of a group of animals or (especially) people; a large-scale massacre or slaughter.
a nuclear holocaust
Holocaust, Auslöschung, Ausmerzung
геноцидgenocid
Примеры
предложений: 47No holocaust must ever happen again.
The truth of the holocaust is doubtless.
Jews don't celebrate the holocaust, they commemorate it.
The memory of the Holocaust is abused for political purposes.
Память о холокосте эксплуатируют с политическими целями.
Is the Holocaust a hoax?
Холокост — миф?
Переводы
языков: 6По значениям 2
По значениям 2
Происхождение
The noun is derived from Middle English holocaust (“burnt offering”) [and other forms], frThe noun is derived from Middle English holocaust (“burnt offering”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman holocauste, Old French holocauste, olocauste (modern French holocaust), from Late Latin holocaustum, from Ancient Greek ὁλόκαυστον (holókauston), the neuter form of ὁλόκαυστος (holókaustos, “wholly burnt”), from ὅλος (hólos, “entire, whole”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole”)) + καυστός (kaustós, “burnt”) (from καίω (kaíō, “to burn, burn up”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂w-). By surface analysis, holo- + -caust.
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Формы
мн. число: holocausts| Ед. число | holocaust |
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| Мн. число | holocausts |
правильный
Синонимы
синонимов: 2- the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945:final solution