holocaust
US: /ˈhɑɫəˌkɔst/
UK: /hˈɒləkˌɔːst/
UK: /hˈɒləkˌɔːst/
English Vietnamese dictionary
holocaust /'hɔləkɔ:st/
- danh từ
- sự thiếu hàng loạt các vật tế thần
- (nghĩa bóng) sự huỷ diệt hàng loạt; sự tàn sát khủng khiếp
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun
1 [C] a situation in which many things are destroyed and many people killed, especially because of a war or a fire: a nuclear holocaust
2 (the Holocaust) [sing.] the killing of millions of Jews by the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 conflagration, fire-storm, inferno, fire; destruction, devastation:
When the volcano exploded, few escaped the holocaust.
2 genocide, mass murder, massacre, blood bath, pogrom, butchery, carnage, annihilation, extinction, extermination, eradication, elimination:
Survivors of the Nazi holocaust hold periodic memorial services.
Concise English dictionary
Holocausts|holocausts'hɑləkɔst /'hɒləkɔːst
noun
+an act of great destruction and loss of life
+the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler
