genocide

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The systematic and deliberate destruction of a group of people; typically by killing substantial numbers of them, on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, or nationality.

   A genocide will always be followed by the denial that it ever happened.

2. 2
   noun

   The systematic suppression of ideas or practices on the basis of cultural or ethnic origin; culturicide.

   Native Americans in the twentieth century are no longer a "vanishing race" or a silent minority. They have survived centuries of cultural genocide inflicted on them by non-Native Americans— both the well-meaning and the self-seeking— […]

3. 3
   noun

   The elimination of an entire class of monsters by the player.

   I used genocide in my first ascension, but have been genocideless ever since. Makes the game much more interesting, but then again, if one hasn't ascended yet, it will be interesting anyway.

4. 4
   verb

   To commit genocide (against); to eliminate (a group of people) completely.

   Even though the Soviet constitution and that of the Ukrainian SSR contain provisions guaranteeing freedom of religion and other fundamental liberties, the Soviet government genocided the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in the 1930's …

5. 5
   noun

   systematic killing of a racial or cultural group

6. 6
   noun

   The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on other grounds.

Etymology

Coined by Polish Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1943 or 1944 in reference to the Armenian Genocide (then known by other names; see: Terminology of the Armenian genocide), massacres of Assyrians (such as the Simele massacre and Seyfo) and the Jewish Holocaust. From the stem of Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “race, kind”) (cognate with Latin gēns (“tribe, clan”), whence genus), corresponding to geno- + -cide (“killing, killer”). Piecewise doublet of gendercide. Compare genticide.