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Meaning of genocides

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

genocides

noun

Definitions

  1. The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, political beliefs, social status, or other particularities.

    Example: A genocide will always be followed by the denial that it ever happened.

  2. (by extension) The systematic suppression of ideas on the basis of cultural or ethnic origin; culturicide.

  3. The elimination of an entire class of monsters by the player.