genocide, race murder, racial extermination
(noun) systematic killing of a racial or cultural group
Source: WordNet® 3.1
genocide (countable and uncountable, plural genocides)
The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, political beliefs, social status, or other particularities.
(by extension) The systematic suppression of ideas on the basis of cultural or ethnic origin; culturicide.
(video games, roguelikes) The elimination of an entire class of monsters by the player.
Genocide was coined to mean, and is generally used in law to mean, the destruction of an ethnic group as such (as a group), whether by killing of all members of the group or other means, such as dispersing the group. In common usage, “genocide” is often used to mean “systematic mass killing”, whether or not the purpose is the destruction of a group or something else, such as terrorizing the group or killing a population without regard to group membership (democide).
• (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people): genticide
genocide (third-person singular simple present genocides, present participle genociding, simple past and past participle genocided)
(transitive) To commit genocide (against); to eliminate (a group of people) completely.
• endogeic
Source: Wiktionary
28 March 2025
(noun) a person who invites guests to a social event (such as a party in his or her own home) and who is responsible for them while they are there
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
