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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   holocaust

   • IPA[ˈhäləˌkôst]

   美式

   • n.
     destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war；the mass murder of Jewish people under the German Nazi regime during the period 1941–5. More than 6 million European Jews, as well as members of other persecuted groups such as Romani, gay people, and disabled people, were murdered at concentration camps such as Auschwitz.

   • noun: holocaust, plural noun: holocausts

2. • 釋義

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war a nuclear holocaust the threat of imminent holocaust
   • ▪ the mass murder of Jewish people under the German Nazi regime during the period 1941–5. More than 6 million European Jews, as well as members of other persecuted groups such as Romani, gay people, and disabled people, were murdered at concentration camps such as Auschwitz.
   • 2. historical a Jewish sacrificial offering that was burned completely on an altar.