book burning
A mass burning of books, intended as a form of political and/or religious censorshipA mass burning of books, intended as a form of political and/or religious censorship.
» They're carrying out a book burning.
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2 senses(countable, literally, uncountable)A mass burning of books, intended as a form of political and/or religious censorship.
Bücherverbrennung
(broadly, countable, idiomatic, uncountable)Any mass destruction, removal, or recalling of books, motion pictures, broadcasts, or electronic works as a form of censorship, especially motivated by religious or political objections to the material.
Examples
2 sentencesThey're carrying out a book burning.
Look! The book is burning.
ruСмотрите! Книга горит. — shanghainese
Translations
3 languagesBy meaning 1
Forms
plural: book burnings| Singular | book burning |
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regular
Synonyms
1 synonymsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.