holocaust

holocaust is a 9-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations.
2. noun. Sacrifice or loss of many lives, as by the burning of a theater or a ship. [An extended use not authorized by careful writers.]
3. noun. an act of mass destruction and loss of life (especially in war or by fire)

   "a nuclear holocaust"

4. noun. the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945

Common word forms

holocausts, holocaustal

Words from these letters

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