Definitions for genocideˈdʒɛn əˌsaɪd

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

gen•o•cideˈdʒɛn əˌsaɪd(n.)

the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
Category: Common Vocabulary

Origin of genocide:

1940–45; < Gk géno(s) race + -cide

gen`o•cid′al(adj.)

Princeton's WordNet

genocide, race murder, racial extermination(noun)
systematic killing of a racial or cultural group

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

genocide(noun)ˈdʒɛn əˌsaɪd
the killing of a race of people
attempts to prevent genocide

Wiktionary

genocide(Noun)
The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on the basis of ethnicity, religion, political opinion, social status, or other particularity.
genocide(Noun)
Acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or a significant portion of, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.

Origin: Coined in 1943 by Raphael Lemkin (1900–1959), a Polish-Jewish legal scholar, to describe what the Turkish government (ca 1915–18) perpetrated against the Armenian people, now called the . From the stem of γένος or gens (as in genus), .