Hypertext Webster Gateway: "holocaust"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Holocaust \Hol"o*caust\, n. [L. holocaustum, Gr. ?, neut. of ?,
?, burnt whole; "o'los whole + kaysto`s burnt, fr. kai`ein to
burn (cf. {Caustic}): cf. F. holocauste.]
1. A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was
consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations.
--Milton.

2. Sacrifice or loss of many lives, as by the burning of a
theater or a ship.

Note: [An extended use not authorized by careful writers.]

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

holocaust
n 1: an act of great destruction and loss of life
2: the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler [syn: {Holocaust},
{final solution}]


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