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Yes. The word genocide is a Scrabble US word. The word genocide is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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Is genocide a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word genocide is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

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8-letter words (1 found)

GENOCIDE,

7-letter words (3 found)

CODEINE,COIGNED,CONGEED,

6-letter words (13 found)

CEDING,CODEIN,CODING,COIGNE,COINED,CONDIE,CONGED,CONGEE,DEEING,EDENIC,ENCODE,GEODIC,INCEDE,

5-letter words (21 found)

CODEN,COGIE,COIGN,CONED,CONGE,DEICE,DEIGN,DIENE,DINGE,DINGO,DOGIE,DOING,DONEE,EIGNE,GENIC,GENIE,GEODE,GEOID,INCOG,NIECE,OGEED,

4-letter words (47 found)

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3-letter words (48 found)

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2-letter words (17 found)

DE,DI,DO,ED,EE,EN,GI,GO,ID,IN,IO,NE,NO,OD,OE,OI,ON,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 151 words from genocide according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of genocide

genocide

Etymology

Coined by lawyer of Polish-Jewish descent Raphael Lemkin in 1943 or 1944 in reference to the Armenian Genocide and the Jewish Holocaust. From the stem of Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “race, kind”) (cognate with Latin gēns (“tribe, clan”), whence genus) + -cide (“killing, killer”). Compare genticide.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛnəsaɪd/

Noun

genocide (countable and uncountable, plural genocides)

  1. The systematic and deliberate destruction of a group of people, typically by killing substantial numbers of them, on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, or nationality.
    • 1944, November, Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation, "Analysis of Government - Proposals for Redress", chapter 9, page 79
      For the German occupying authorities war thus appears to offer the most appropriate occasion for carrying out their policy of genocide.
    A genocide will always be followed by the denial that it ever happened.
  2. (by extension) The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on other grounds.
  3. (by extension) The systematic suppression of ideas or practices on the basis of cultural or ethnic origin; culturicide.
  4. (video games, roguelikes) The elimination of an entire class of monsters by the player.

Usage notes

Genocide was coined to mean, and is generally used in law to mean, the destruction of an ethnic group as such (as a group). This is the case whether it is done 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, more specifically known as democide.

Synonyms

  • (systematic killing of substantial numbers of people): genticide

Hypernyms

  • crime against humanity

Hyponyms

  • ethnic cleansing
  • ethnocide
  • Shoah
  • holocaust, Holocaust
  • Porajmos, Samudaripen

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Translations

See also

  • dehumanization
  • Holodomor
  • pogrom
  • war crime

Verb

genocide (third-person singular simple present genocides, present participle genociding, simple past and past participle genocided)

  1. (transitive) To commit genocide (against); to eliminate (a group of people) completely.
    • 1986, Oversight of the Board for International Broadcasting: hearing before the Subcommittee on International Operations of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, second session, June 17, 1986, volume 4, page 145:
      Even though the Soviet constitution and that of the Ukrainian SSR contain provisions guaranteeing freedom of religion and other fundamental liberties, the Soviet government genocided the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church in the 1930's [...]

Derived terms

  • geno

References

Anagrams

  • endogeic

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English genocide. Equivalent to geno- +‎ -cide.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌɣeː.noːˈsi.də/
  • Hyphenation: ge‧no‧ci‧de
  • Rhymes: -idə

Noun

genocide f (plural genocides, diminutive genocidetje n)

  1. genocide
    Synonym: volkerenmoord

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Indonesian: genosida

Source: wiktionary.org