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Webster 1913 Edition


Populicide

Pop′u-li-cideˊ

,
Noun.
[L.
populus
people +
caedere
to kill.]
Slaughter of the people.
[R.]

Definition 2024


populicide

populicide

English

Noun

populicide (plural populicides)

  1. The slaughter of a people; a massacre.

Translations

Related terms

  • see democide
  • <a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:English_words_suffixed_with_-cide'>English words suffixed with -cide</a>

References

  • populicide in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913