Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations.
- 2noun
Sacrifice or loss of many lives, as by the burning of a theater or a ship. [An extended use not authorized by careful writers.]
- 3noun
an act of mass destruction and loss of life (especially in war or by fire)
"a nuclear holocaust"
- 4noun
the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945
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