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発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒləkɔːst/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑləkɔst/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑləkɑst/

固有名詞

the Holocaust (usually uncountable, 複数形 Holocausts)

1. (historical, strictly) The systematic mass murder (genocide) of six million Jews perpetrated by Nazi Germany shortly before and during World War II.
2. (historical, broadly) The systematic mass murder (democide) of somewhere between eleven and fourteen million people, namely six million Jews and from five to eight million others (including Romanis, Slavs, homosexuals, かつ people with physical かつ mental disabilities), perpetrated by Nazi Germany shortly before and during World War II.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:Holocaust.

使用する際の注意点

• Whether the term "Holocaust" is a designation for the mass murder of all groups systematically targeted by the Nazis, or only the genocide of six million Jews, is contested.^[1]
• The genocide of the European Jews may be unambiguously referred to as the Shoah. The genocide of the Romani people has the specific designation Porajmos.

同意語

• (mass murder of six million Jews): Shoah
• the Nazi genocide

上位語

• (mass murder of six million Jews): holocaust, genocide, mass murder
• (mass murder of 11 million people): holocaust, democide, mass murder

下位語

• (mass murder of 11 million people): Shoah (mass murder of Jews)
• (mass murder of 11 million people): Homocaust
• (mass murder of 11 million people): Porajmos (the genocide of the Roma)

派生語

• (used by Holocaust deniers:)
  • Hoaxocaust, Holocash, Holohoax
  • Holocaustianity
  • Lolocaust

動詞

Holocaust (三人称単数 現在形 Holocausts, 現在分詞 Holocausting, 過去形および過去分詞形 Holocausted)

1. Alternative letter-case form of holocaust (“subject to a mass annihilation; destroy en masse”).

参考

• The Holocaust on Wikipedia.
• at Wikipedia: Nazi persecution of Romanis (Porajmos), Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, blacks, Poles, Soviet prisoners-of-war, and homosexuals
• concentration camp
• ethnic cleansing
• final solution
• Meds Yeghern

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