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Word: Pogrom
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 19th century: Yiddish and Russian, literally ‘devastation’, from pogromit ‘destroy by the use of violence’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈpɒɡrəm
Dialects: British English
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈpɒɡrɒm
Dialects: British English
Definition:
an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jewish people in Russia or eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Short Definition:organized massacre of ethnic group
Examples:- the pogroms of the 1880s drove many westwards to the USA
- the Nazis began a pogrom against Jewish people in Germany
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