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Definition: Genocide |
GenocideNoun1. Systematic killing of a racial or cultural group. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "genocide" was first used: 1944. (references) |
Synonyms: GenocideSynonyms: race murder (n), racial extermination (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Genocide |
| English words defined with "genocide": Heinrich Himmler, Himmler. (references) |
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Screenplays | You are not God! This act of genocide is unconscionable! (Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver; writing credit: Amy Hennig) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Genocide Factor (2000) Bhopal: Beyond Genocide (1986) Genocide (1981) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Counting on you to join us--demonstration for boat people / sponsor: Committee Against Genocide by Vietnam.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The Nazi leadership attempted to remove or subjugate all non-German peoples in Germany by forced migration and, ultimately, genocide. (references) | |
Children | Rwanda | Approximately 30,000 children live abroad, and the Government claims most were taken without the consent of their parents during the genocide. (references) |
Rwanda | More than 98 percent of the children who were separated from or lost their parents during the 1994 genocide and subsequent repatriations have been reunited with family members or placed in foster homes. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Canada | Inciting hatred (in certain cases) or genocide is a criminal offense. (references) |
Economic History | Rwanda | Trying this many suspects of genocide will tax Rwanda's resources sorely. (references) |
Rwanda | The president's MRND Party was implicated in organizing many aspects of the genocide. (references) | |
Rwanda | The RPF then resumed its invasion, and civil war raged concurrently with the genocide for 2 months. (references) | |
Human Rights | Rwanda | In July the ICTR arrested three of its own investigators on charges of genocide. (references) |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | She was charged with genocide and other crimes against Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats. (references) | |
Rwanda | She allegedly incited persons to kill during the 1994 genocide with her inflammatory radio broadcasts. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Brazil | Pataxo leaders claim that the sterilizations constituted genocide intended to free their land for farmers who illegally occupy the Pataxo reserve. (references) |
Minorities | Burundi | Almost 4 decades of violence and systematic societal discrimination have exacerbated the genocide and exclusion fears of both Tutsis and Hutus. (references) |
Burundi | Tutsis claim to have been the targets of genocide carried out in 1993 by Hutus angered by the assassination of democratically elected Hutu president Ndadaye. (references) | |
Political Economy | Rwanda | Insurgents tied to those responsible for the 1994 genocide committed several killings. (references) |
Rwanda | The 1994 genocide destroyed the country's social fabric, human resource base, institutional capacity, and economic and social infrastructure. (references) | |
Rwanda | Most of the prisoners housed in jails and local detention centers (cachots) are accused of participating in the 1994 genocide; many have been detained for up to 7 years without being charged. (references) | |
Political Rights | Burundi | It calls for the creation of an international tribunal to try crimes of genocide. (references) |
Rwanda | Following the genocide of 1994, political parties agreed to form a government of national unity based on the 1992-93 Arusha Accords. (references) | |
Congo | In 1998 the CNT passed a law on genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity that permits the exclusion from public office of those found guilty of such crimes. (references) | |
Women | Rwanda | Since the 1994 genocide, a number of women's groups have emerged. (references) |
Worker Rights | Rwanda | The labor movement has been hampered in practice because of the massive disruptions caused by the 1994 genocide. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Genocide" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.23% of the time. "Genocide" is used about 106 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.23% | 102 | 32,309 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.89% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.89% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 106 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "genocide": mini-genocide. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
genocide | 291 |
armenian genocide | 144 |
rwanda genocide | 104 |
genocide in rwanda | 31 |
cambodian genocide | 29 |
rwandan genocide | 24 |
cambodia genocide | 23 |
bosnia genocide | 18 |
genocide picture rwanda | 17 |
genocide picture | 13 |
genocide in cambodia | 12 |
native american genocide | 11 |
congo genocide | 9 |
genocide in bosnia | 8 |
africa genocide | 7 |
bosnian genocide | 7 |
genocide gerbil | 7 |
rawanda genocide | 7 |
definition genocide | 7 |
kosovo genocide | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "genocide"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | gjenocid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قتل جماعي, إبادة جماعية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | геноцид. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 種族清洗 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | genocida. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | Konventionen om forebyggelse af og straf for folkedrab (Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Verdrag inzake de voorkoming en bestraffing van genocide (Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کشتاردسته جمعی , قتل عام (Carnage, Holocaust, Slaughter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kansanmurha. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | génocide. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | völkermord. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γενοκτονία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "שמ"ת עם, רצח עם. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fajirtás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | genocidio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 大虐殺 (mass killing), ジェット燃料 (diethylene glycol, diopter, gem, gemstone, gender, gender gap, general, general strike, generalist, generate, generation, generation gap, generator, generic, generic brand, genetic, genetic algorithms, genetic system, gentleman, geography, geology, geometric, geometry, Geotopia, gerontocracy, gerontology, Japanese External Trade Organization, jealousy, jelly, Jenkins, Jerry, jet fuel, JETRO, The End). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ジェノサイド , いぎゃくさつ (mass killing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | kynney-ghunverys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enocidegay demônio (archenemy, archfiend, Belial, daemon, demon, Deuce, Dickens, fiend, gremlin, poltergeist). (various references) genocid. (various references) геноцид. (various references) genocid. (various references) genocidio. (various references) folkmord. (various references) genosit, soykırım (battue, holocaust). (various references) геноцид. (various references) tội diệt chủng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | genos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | -cidere. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "genocide": genocides. (additional references) | |
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"Genocide" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: genacide, genecide, genicide, genocided, genoside, geonocide, Gilnockie, glenoid, greenockite, grenoside, gynocide. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "genocide" (pronounced je"nusī'd) |
| 4 | -u s ī' d | fratricide, fungicide, germicide, glucoside, glycoside, herbicide, homicide, infanticide, insecticide, pesticide, prophesied, suicide. |
| 3 | -s ī' d | backside, bedside, blindside, broadside, countryside, curbside, dioxide, dockside, downside, fireside, graveside, harborside, hillside, Ironside, lakeside, mountainside, oxide, peroxide, poolside, ringside, riverside, roadside, seaside, silverside, superoxide, underside, wayside. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-g-i-n-o" | |
-1 letter: codeine, coigned, congeed. | |
-2 letters: ceding, codein, coding, coigne, coined, congee, edenic, encode, geodic. | |
-3 letters: coden, coign, coned, conge, deice, deign, diene, dinge, dingo, dogie, doing, donee, genic, genie, geode, geoid, incog, niece. | |
-4 letters: cede, cedi, cine, cion, code, coed, coin, cone, coni, deco, dene, deni, dice, dine, ding, doge, done, dong, edge, eide, geed, gene, gied, gien, gone, iced, icon, need, nice, nide, node, nodi, odic, ogee, once. | |
-5 letters: cee, cig, cod, cog, con, dee, den, die, dig, din, doc, doe, dog, don, ego, end, eng, eon, ged, gee, gen, gid, gie, gin, god, ice, ion, nee, nod, nog, ode, one. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-g-i-n-o" | |
+1 letter: endoergic, endogenic, genocides, pedogenic. | |
+2 letters: codesigned, endergonic, paedogenic, proceeding, recognised, recognized. | |
+3 letters: bedcovering, coextending, coredeeming, overdecking, pedogenetic, proceedings, rerecording, retroceding. | |
+4 letters: androgenetic, bedcoverings, chalcogenide, cladogenesis, cladogenetic, codeveloping, crescendoing, decongesting, decongestion, decongestive, diabetogenic, paedogenetic, prerecording, recommending, recondensing, reconfigured, redecorating, unrecognized. | |
+5 letters: chalcogenides, commandeering, comprehending, condescending, confederating, countersigned, crossbreeding, decompressing, decongestions, gonadectomies, monoglyceride, nondecreasing, noradrenergic, overdirecting, overeducating, reconsidering, rediscovering, steroidogenic, technologized. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 65 6E 6F 63 69 64 65 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. . -. --- -.-. .. -.. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100101 01101110 01101111 01100011 01101001 01100100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G e n o c i d e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0065 006E 006F 0063 0069 0064 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4171808169757071 |
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