Skip to main content

ethnocide 

"Ethnocide" means "destruction or murder of an ethnic group". It comes from the Greek "έθνος" and the Latin "caedere". In contrast to the more-general term "genocide" (pertaining to a case in which significant numbers of people are murdered, and with "genus" referring to either ethnic, class, or familial distinction), "ethnocide" refers to the specific and targeted destruction of an ethnic group.
The Holocaust was really less of a genocide than it was an ethnocide, since the Nazis (Yemach shemam.) specifically intended to destroy the Jewish ethnic group.
ethnocide by Nickidewbear March 6, 2014
ethnocide mug front
Get the ethnocide mug.
See more merch

ethnicide 

The decline or decimation of an ethnic identity, not necessarily involving genocidal or sectarian violence, often takes the form of the gradual replacing of an indigenous ethnic indentity, by an incoming ethnic group.
The slow ethnicide of the cultural practices and identity of Armenians, culminated in a massacre of their numbers by the Turks.
ethnicide by Aristotles23 May 29, 2016
Related Words
The act of committing suicide as a result of bad economic conditions.
The President of the company committed econocide after the economy worsened.
Econocide by Garrett Graff April 23, 2009
Homicide, Suicide, Genocide, Pesticide...etc. Any act of killing directly influence by the state of the economy.
Joe: "We're in a recession, right?"

Nick: "Yea, why?"

Joe: "We'll then, I'm bustin an econocide."

Nick: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Econocide by Konmong February 6, 2009
any person who looks like they could be of mixed racial parentage
Angelina Jolie looks like an ethnoid to me.
ethnoid by nick barknot May 24, 2007

ethnicide 

extermination by massacre of an entire ethnic group.
The Nazi regime resorted to Jewish ethnicide, a blot on European history.
ethnicide by uttam maharjan December 14, 2010

abandonware 

n. software that is no longer sold or supported by the original publisher / developer, often found as free downloads on the internet because it cannot be obtained elsewhere. Not legal, but often seen as morally acceptable because the company that made it is no longer selling the title, nor releasing it as freeware, therefore abandonware is "keeping the game alive", so to speak.
Doom II is not abandonware because id still sells it, while The Incredible Machine is not sold, therefore is abandonware.
abandonware by Spoom October 24, 2003
Word of the Day on July 11, 2026