English to Afrikaans Meaning of holocaust - holocaust

Holocaust :

holocaust

noun

Holocaust :: holocaustHolocausts :: brandoffers

← Holmoak

holograph →

Share This

Definitions of holocaust in English

Noun(1) an act of mass destruction and loss of life (especially in war or by fire(2) the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945

Examples of holocaust in English

(1) Why should they, on top of everything else they go through, have to suffer the terror of anticipating a nuclear holocaust ?(2) a nuclear holocaust(3) He could well have a nuclear holocaust on his hands before this was over.(4) Most of us have long forgotten the dread of nuclear holocaust that seemed almost inevitable prior to the fall of the Soviet Union.(5) This is a racist holocaust , where people are targeted for slaughter because of their ethnicity - yet many people deny this basic truth.(6) It was a real possibility that the entire world would end in a nuclear holocaust .(7) For Antarctic mammals it was to be a holocaust ; so many were slaughtered that by the 1830s there was virtually nothing left to kill.(8) When this song was written, people till saw the threat of nuclear holocaust as a very real thing and the lyrics describe the moment that the first bomb goes off.(9) It was enough to know that Israel would be a place of refuge for Jews around the world if another holocaust threatened.(10) In open sacrifice, the smoke of their holocaust at the temple is sent aloft with an unspoken prayer to the old gods.(11) The Cold War bred a generation obsessed with fear and concern about imminent nuclear holocaust .(12) The world came within an inch of nuclear holocaust during the Cuban missile crisis.(13) Up to one million of the country's seven million people were slaughtered in a week-long holocaust .(14) His personal loss, the holocaust and the general exhaustion and destruction of the war coloured his work for many years.(15) And survivors of the Rwandan genocide and the holocaust work to keep the memories of their relatives alive.(16) I felt like one of the survivors after a nuclear holocaust .

Related Phrases of holocaust

Related Phrases of holocaust

Synonyms

Noun

1. cataclysm ::

ramp

2. disaster ::

ramp

3. catastrophe ::

katastrofe

4. destruction ::

vernietiging

6. annihilation ::

uitwissing

7. massacre ::

slagting

8. slaughter ::

slagting

9. mass murder ::

massamoord

12. carnage ::

slagting

13. butchery ::

slaghuis

14. genocide ::

volksmoord

15. ethnic cleansing ::

etniese suiwering

16. pogrom ::

pogrom

Different Forms

holocaust, holocausts

Word Example from TV Shows

would be out of place in a film about the Holocaust.

The Big Bang Theory Season 7, Episode 23

Examples of holocaust from TV Shows

would be out of place in a film about the Holocaust.

The Big Bang Theory Season 7, Episode 23

English to Afrikaans Dictionary: holocaust

Meaning and definitions of holocaust, translation in Afrikaans language for holocaust with similar and opposite words. Also find spoken pronunciation of holocaust in Afrikaans and in English language.

Tags for the entry 'holocaust'

What holocaust means in Afrikaans, holocaust meaning in Afrikaans, holocaust definition, examples and pronunciation of holocaust in Afrikaans language.

English to Afrikaans Dictionary: holocaust

Tags for the entry 'holocaust'

What holocaust means in Afrikaans, holocaust meaning in Afrikaans, holocaust definition, examples and pronunciation of holocaust in Afrikaans language.